ORIGINAL: Bob Mitchell
ORIGINAL: combatpigg
Bob, outside of mailing out forms to contest directors and making provisions at the Nats, I'm not aware of any specially allocated money that AMA passes out to the various categories of modeling? When control line was on a death watch 20 years ago, I never heard about any AMA funds allocated to give it a boost. Same goes for 1/2A now.
Either this stuff can stand on its' own merits or it's time to wave by-by.
It's just a matter of whether AMA revenue and expenses are in balance for the various interest areas. It's my opinion that for those area with lower numbers of member participation (read less revenue from dues), that AMA is probably spending more in it's support of those activities than it may be receiving in revenue. If that's the case, then those areas are being "subsidized" just as PPP is as a result of it's start-up costs.
The backbone of AMA is, IMO, Sunday sport RC flyers. If you took all the free-flighters, indoor rubber guys, control liners, etc., out of dues, AMA could still survive. The reverse would not be true. So yes, the largest group does subsidize the rest. I believe this is true in terms of MA coverage, and probably the Nats, also.
But I don't think this is important, anyway. We need to be a cohesive group to survive, I think most anyone here agrees.
What is important, is the contention that PPP discriminates. No, it does not. Simple reason is because no one is forced to be PPP. No one is born into PPP. Skin color, gender, nationality, sex preference, nor any other factor causes anyone to HAVE to choose PPP. It is simply a choice one makes based upon one's preferences.
If I buy the basic cable tv package, I'm not being discriminated against because I can't watch HBO.
Some here will never get, or admit that fact, but, there it is.
Anyone who chooses PPP, then cries discrimination, is a hypocrite, IMO.