FMCA to allow Towables Owners to join

mike-uswest wrote:
I give up, what's FMCA stand for? Just curious.

Mike

OK, I'll bite.....

Family Motor Coach Association.

MM.

ro_sie wrote:
Quick! Grab a good chair and the popcorn. Here we go AGAIN!

OK!

I give up, what's FMCA stand for? Just curious.

Mike

I don't have a dog in this fight, but it seems like 2/3 of the members voted in favor of the change. That is a significant majority vote, and if that is what the members want, then the club should be responsive to that.

rgatijnet1 wrote:

Ralph Cramden wrote:

Bill.Satellite wrote:
It was never was, and is not now, a mater of elitism. FMCA was built, run and dedicated to owners of RV's with engines only. It's no more elitist than having a Tiffin club club or a Keystone club.
Family MOTOR COACH Assn, now to be know as FMCA but with no real meaning, turns it from an organization dedicated to the Motor Home owner to just another Good Sam club. The average age of a FMCA member is 71 years and this age is killing the budget for their one actual benefit (if you are old enough) which is the FMC Assist. The goal of what will be a completely revamped business will be to draw in younger members to help pay for this benefit for older members. I can't see where the benefits to the younger members will come from since they likely already have "actual" benefits from the Good Sam group and their excellent camping discounts and Camping World savings along with a magazine that runs the gamut of the RVing lifestyle.

I never claimed that FMCA was rife with elitism as an organization or knocking it. I was responding to Mr Marks post of" I don't get it, the FMCA is allowing towables to join and that's a problem?"
That being said, FMCA has some amount of elitists as any organization does.

Boy did you read MM's post wrong. His intent was clearly that allowing towables should not be a problem, hence the question mark at the end. It was not a statement, it was a question wondering why towables are a problem to anyone. Sometimes you need to read the entire post rather than pick out one sentence and interpret it entirely different than the intent.

Exactly.......It should not be a problem, of course there will be a certain percentage of current members who think otherwise and for whatever reason are the 2981 members who voted against it. Some percentage of those are elitists plain and simple. You have them in any club or organization.

I have sat around the fire with quite a few FMCA members over the years. I have also been parked beside a few in a campground who would not give you the time of day, and turned their noses up like our travel trailer was seething with Bubonic plague.

Perhaps you need to brush up on your comprehension.

We're not joiners either but I would think that joining a motorhome club with a TT would be like joining a Harley club with a motor scooter!

Quick! Grab a good chair and the popcorn. Here we go AGAIN!

Ralph Cramden wrote:

Bill.Satellite wrote:
It was never was, and is not now, a mater of elitism. FMCA was built, run and dedicated to owners of RV's with engines only. It's no more elitist than having a Tiffin club club or a Keystone club.
Family MOTOR COACH Assn, now to be know as FMCA but with no real meaning, turns it from an organization dedicated to the Motor Home owner to just another Good Sam club. The average age of a FMCA member is 71 years and this age is killing the budget for their one actual benefit (if you are old enough) which is the FMC Assist. The goal of what will be a completely revamped business will be to draw in younger members to help pay for this benefit for older members. I can't see where the benefits to the younger members will come from since they likely already have "actual" benefits from the Good Sam group and their excellent camping discounts and Camping World savings along with a magazine that runs the gamut of the RVing lifestyle.

I never claimed that FMCA was rife with elitism as an organization or knocking it. I was responding to Mr Marks post of" I don't get it, the FMCA is allowing towables to join and that's a problem?"
That being said, FMCA has some amount of elitists as any organization does.

Boy did you read MM's post wrong. His intent was clearly that allowing towables should not be a problem, hence the question mark at the end. It was not a statement, it was a question wondering why towables are a problem to anyone. Sometimes you need to read the entire post rather than pick out one sentence and interpret it entirely different than the intent.

We went out to Winnebago in 2010 and at that time it was motor homes only. We have not been out there since but they did the same thing and as far as I know they are doing just fine. Also I was our chapter president a few years ago and the idea was going around.I think us Boomers are going to have to let the new age groups that are coming in the future. I know I started in a pop up when the kids where young then a travel trailer then a Class C and now our 36 ft Coach. I remember going to our First Good Sams Ralay some one pointed to me and ask there friends who is that grandson was. So I have seen both sides of this story.I think change is good and it is needed to keep the clubs going in the future. With the internet and forms like this learning from the older members can be done on the internet.25 years ago if you wanted to learn about motor home travel you joined these clubs and learned from the old timers. Now we are the old timers and need to change with the times we live in.

Bill.Satellite wrote:
It was never was, and is not now, a mater of elitism. FMCA was built, run and dedicated to owners of RV's with engines only. It's no more elitist than having a Tiffin club club or a Keystone club.
Family MOTOR COACH Assn, now to be know as FMCA but with no real meaning, turns it from an organization dedicated to the Motor Home owner to just another Good Sam club. The average age of a FMCA member is 71 years and this age is killing the budget for their one actual benefit (if you are old enough) which is the FMC Assist. The goal of what will be a completely revamped business will be to draw in younger members to help pay for this benefit for older members. I can't see where the benefits to the younger members will come from since they likely already have "actual" benefits from the Good Sam group and their excellent camping discounts and Camping World savings along with a magazine that runs the gamut of the RVing lifestyle.

I never claimed that FMCA was rife with elitism as an organization or knocking it. I was responding to Mr Marks post of" I don't get it, the FMCA is allowing towables to join and that's a problem?"
That being said, FMCA has some amount of elitists as any organization does.