Everyone, what's say we take this off list? Please? Arguing about it here is only going to make more people leave the list and will accomplish nothing. Besides, this is not a SLAS list. If you want to discuss controversial SLAS-related topics please do so at the next SLAS board meeting. patrick On 22 Jan 2012, at 00:22, Joe Bauman wrote:
You missed my point, Siegfried. Maybe I didn't express it clearly enough. What I meant to say is that we DO NOT restrict spending of club money based on contributions of anything. I never said you proposed an ALCON scope. I meant to say the thought that the club is somehow "subsidizing" someone who is not worthy of a subsidy (i.e., by renting a bus) is as silly as saying an ALCON scope should only be available for those who worked at ALCON and earned money for it -- otherwise they would be "subsidizing" the others. You're the one who brought up the argument against subsidizing and I was commenting on it. Of course we volunteer out of the wish to help others and not with the thought of getting anything else out of it. So you view the eclipse trip as a private party. But what if others view it as a club excursion?