Yearly National Dues

[Nicholson]

Great points to the posts below. I can understand why undergrads and alumni from small chapters wouldn't like sending their hard earned money to nationals for expansion or resource purposes. Its hard enough to make it own their own.

[Toucan]

I would go one step further, and purpose that alumni donate a minimum of $100 to Nationals each year.

Don't forget the local alumni clubs. Many of us pay into them.

I've got to ask...why is it that you believe the national organization is hurting for money?

Also, why do these things at a national level when you can do it locally and better tailor it to a paticular chapter's situation?

[Cricket]

Don't forget the local alumni clubs. Many of us pay into them.

I've got to ask...why is it that you believe the national organization is hurting for money?

Also, why do these things at a national level when you can do it locally and better tailor it to a paticular chapter's situation?

Come on, Zach. Where have you been? Don't you realize that everything is better when done top down rather than locally? That's why our federal government is in such great shape right now.

[Toucan]

Come on, Zach. Where have you been? Don't you realize that everything is better when done top down rather than locally? That's why our federal government is in such great shape right now.

Wow kids....just wow.


Yeah, that post office thing really went poorly. National defense, Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, hell....fire departments and police stations.

How about uniform traffic safety standards crash testing. Weights and measures from NIST. Not to mention the complete failure of the national highway system.


Try to get some of those "tea-baggers" to fill out the attached....

[Cricket]

I'm not sure that the post office is the best example. Same as the nearly doomed Social Security. Really, the most successful federal institution in your first list is national defense, and haven't you been the one posting on this board about how we've overextended ourselves in the Middle East?

I'll stop now, because I realize that this isn't on the off-topic board. Sorry for derailing the thread.:frown:

[RobbieNelson]

Try to get some of those "tea-baggers" to fill out the attached....

If that form would also alleviate my tax burden for said programs, I'd fill it out in a heartbeat.

Cricket's point: Google News -> USPS (http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&rlz=&q=usps&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tbo=u&tbs=nws:1&sa=N&tab=wn)

Some things work great top-down, others don't.

Yearly national dues for alumni won't work. What is the recourse for not paying? You gonna take their letters away? A vast majority of our local alum won't even pay local alumni dues.