Hello Abel,

I am not sure arguing about the organizations make up is productive, so I won't. However, I AM very concerned that the raw membership number seems to be declining. THAT is something we should address as reduced membership numbers allow EC members who swear "not on my watch" to raise the dues 20% every couple of years to pay for the expanded goals for the Muncie site and other "we gotta have this" high dollar items.

Or should we all just go away?

RE: Membership decline??? - 11/19/2004 6:02:15 PM


SSRCCPREZ has one part of the idea, the electric folks just don't NEED the AMA and the AMA has not presented it case to them properly. That is TWO straight shots by ONE kind of flyer. However, putting the AMA into the buying and owning and otherwise retaining flying fields nationwide is just another taxation plan to relocate wealth within the AMA.

Saying that politics drives people off is sort of like saying giving at church drives members off. Ain't so, the preacher and his laymen do that without ever talking about $. Our problem is (one more time) that most don't know how to present the AMA to prospective new members without dropping into the rant about insurance, which does NOT define the AMA.

My opinion, and I am partial to it unless you can convince me otherwise.