Re: Non-Member Fees, also paying more to be single

[Maggie Mieske <mmieske@netonecom.net>]

Doesn't take much to get you going, does it?  And until your check floats through my
house on its way to AERC, that is simply a ludicrous statement to imply that YOU have
to pay for MY family's endurance riding.  Good God!  I'm not going to apologize for
having a family OR accepting and appreciating the discount!  Your reasoning is a
little bit off base in my book but you're entitled to your opinion the same as I am
and I am not going to enter into an argument about something like this... I have
better things to do!
Maggie
"Glenda R. Snodgrass" wrote:

> > But now, I have a
> > good size family... at this point, only my husband, my daughter and I are
> > interested enough in the sport to join... the other 2 kids are gonna have to
> > learn to pit crew!!!  But if we had to pay $195 to join, we wouldn't.  Why?  It
>
> Hmmm, so even though I've never met you, and was certainly never involved
> in any of your personal life decisions, *I* should subsidize *your*
> decision to have children, by paying higher fees for myself, so that you
> can pay lower fees for yourself and your family, thus enabling your
> husband and children to participate in this sport on my nickel?
>
> > I think all in
> > all, it's probably the families who join who perpetuate the sport with their
> > children and grandchildren...
>
> Oh?  You think just because I am single and childless, I won't be bringing
> any other individuals into the sport?  I am unable to perpetuate the sport
> because I have not given birth to children who may someday ride endurance?
> The constant crusading I do at my barn and all around town, and the
> efforts I have made to get a friend here interested in endurance, to the
> point of dragging him to rides to keep me company while I crew for a
> friend, and last weekend driving 800 miles in 2 days to borrow an
> endurance horse for him to ride this winter, to give him a taste for it
> ... these activities of mine don't count as "perpetuating the sport" the
> same way that having children would?  Hmmmm, interesting perspective.
>
> I think a junior discount is a good idea, but discounting fees for adults
> because they live in the same house (oooops, I dunno, do you get the
> family discount if you are merely cohabitating, or is a marriage
> certificate necessary?) is merely a perpetuation of the long-standing
> prejudice against single adults.  Some allowance should be made for a
> single copy of EN, but still ... there is a serious imbalance in the
> existing fee structure.  I am horrified by what I read in an earlier post
> about a family discount for attendance at convention workshops.  If true,
> that is outrageous and wildly discriminatory.
>
> Glenda & Lakota
> Mobile, AL
> AERC # M18819 & H27310
> SE Region