ORIGINAL: Mode One
That's the problem! Why are the battery packs so expensive?
Maybe we can go back to the original idea behind this thread. Here is an unanswered question from above:
ORIGINAL: Mode One
People here are claiming Model Aviation is loosing money. Is this true, or just another conjur from the folks that feel $58.00 is just to much money to spend supporting model avaition on a national level? I think MA is the best magazine available! I like to read watching TV or just before going to sleep. I will never want to do all my reading here, on a "vibrating" immobile CRT screen!
Mode One, all you have to do is go to the AMA Web site,
Members Only, and read the audit reports. The same info has been partially repeated each month in Doug Holland's EVP column. (Basically Holland takes the easy way out and just copies other people's work each month.)
If you can read an Auditor's report and correlate between all of the separate financial statements, then YOU can ascertain the annual loss of member-funds for MA definitely
does exceed $1,000,000.00 mark.
>>>"I think MA is the best magazine available!" <<<
It darn well SHOULD be. As an example, let's say you are producing a commercial item Widget XXX and you stake your daily bread / earning a living for your production. Now Joe Blow starts producing a very similar item and the government starts providing Joe an amount of 1/2+ of his production costs. As you are working in the fair market place, but the competition is totally subsidized as far as turning a large profit, then you, sir, will soon be out of customers, or out of profit.
WOULD YOU LIKE THAT? WOULD YOU HAVE GREAT SYMPATHY FOR JOE?
That is the same scenario being played out as AMA/MA has a captive customer list. Free Market magazines have to devote many more pages to advertising thus cutting their good reading, and
definitely cut all AMA support.
The only people that could possibly condone AMA/MA's commercial magazine operation, under member subsidy, just have to be entwined within the Marxists, Socialists, and/or other such restructure vermin that are tearing down our capitalist society.
EDITED: Sentence structure.