Re: RC: who pays?

[jlong@mti.net (Joe Long)]

On Tue, 9 Mar 1999 00:22:03 EST, Dbeverly4@aol.com wrote:

>Uh-oh, we're going down THAT road again!   Should we even talk about the fact
>that LD is not endurance?  Also (i'm sure somebody has said it better), but
>the organization provides for the fact that there is such a thing as endurance
>riding.  There should be benefits to members and therefore, non-members should
>have to pay more.  I can't think of a better way to say this... anybody have a
>better way to say it?  Sounds garbled when I say it, any help out there?

You're making a common misconception, in that you have it backwards.
Endurance rides don't exist because of the AERC, the AERC exists
because of endurance rides.  There were rides before there was an
AERC, the AERC was formed to be the recordkeeping and sanctioning body
for rides, and if the AERC went out of existence tomorrow the rides
would continue and there would be a new organization.

Yes, there should be and are benefits to members ... which the members
should pay for themselves, not expect others to subsidize.

-- 

Joe Long
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