5-BG wrote:
It is possible to recover from the requirement to come up with $200,000 to $500,000 by eliminating the magazine expenses for about a year and reducing expenditures to the bone.

Actually not. I guarantee you, if the magazine stops going out, the dues will stop coming in. You can't have one without the other. Soaring magazine is the only tangable benefit of membership for most of us members. Take away the magazine and there is not only little reason to continue sending in dues, but you cut off the membership from regular communications with their organization (out of sight, out of mind).

For all of the complaints, I think that Soaring is an amazing magazine (considering the resources of the SSA). If the SSA goes away, I hope at least the magazine remains as a commercial venture.

Vaughn