On 12/13/06 11:02 AM, in article
, "Jack"
wrote:

Dan and Jan Armstrong wrote:
The E-news was factually inaccurate - "run completely by volunteers".
We had a professional manager who should have set standards,
procedures, & protocols such that there was financial integrity in the
system, and a volunteer board with responsiblity for oversight and
supervision. We have a paid staff.

You either donated to the Eagle Fund or you don't have a grasp of
reality. I get really tired of these black-and-white categorizations.


OK, then let's do this discussion all over again:

Survival _is_ a black and white situation;

If you care, then you contribute;

Those who don't care if the SSA survives can definitely
go screw themselves.


Any questions?


Jack

Here's my bottom line on this situation. Just my humble opinion, take it for
what it's worth, etc.

Trust is a highly volatile commodity. Once lost, it is very hard to get
back, and can't be earned quickly.

Having the very same people who led us into this situation (or, to be more
charitable, failed to detect this situation for several years) say "we'll
lead you out of this mess" doesn't reassure me.

Once every member of the current BOD and Officers/Exec Comm have rotated
out, and we have a complete new leadership team, then trust can begin to be
earned again.

Until then I won't be giving extra money to a group led by individuals that
have demonstrated they can't safeguard it.

That doesn't mean I don't like soaring: I do, very much. It doesn't mean I
don't like the SSA and what it tries to accomplish: I do. I doesn't mean
that I won't support the SSA again in the future, or renew my membership: I
will.

It just means I will be careful about where I send my discretionary money.
Right now, MSF and the ARC seem like better charities for my end of year
giving.

If some (like those who wrote the letters in the SSA News) think less of me
for that, well, I can't help that. People who see the world in
black-and-white are not people whose opinions I value.

Respectfully,
Bullwinkle