[QCWA] All Glitter, No Substance NationalSOS.com Plan is Dangerous

[newsline at ix.netcom.com]

Sorry to tell you, but in the "real world" -- "numbers" are the one that counts. 

Politicians look at numbers and make decisions based on those "numbers."  

Advertisers look at numbers and decide where to markt a product.  

Etc.  Etc.

Bottom line:  The 84 are entitled to an opinion, but the reality is that the numbers have the attention of the folks who will decide.  It may not be a good decision, but its likely to be the onme made because 11,000 votes are more important to politicans than are 84.  

-----Original Message-----
>From: Tim WB4BAH <wb4bah at mindspring.com>
>Sent: May 14, 2006 11:45 PM
>To: newsline at ix.netcom.com, Discussion of QCWA <qcwa at mailman.qth.net>
>Subject: Re: [QCWA] All Glitter, No Substance NationalSOS.com Plan is Dangerous
>
>I am not at all concerned about counting members as I don't let the 
>quantity of people behind something form my opinion for me.  I let their 
>views, and the basis for them, help me form my opinion. The PRA's views 
>seem very straight-forward.  They make a lot of sense.  I agree that the 
>NationalSOS plan seems to be very poorly planned.
>
>I am also baseing my views on the fact that I have seen the PRA's press 
>release on several state and national sites for various emergency 
>response organizations (So someone has heard of it).  Where I have seen 
>this I have also noticed the comments regarding the release have always 
>been favorable to the PRA's position.  I have also seen, on some of 
>these same sites, comments opposed to the NationalSOS plan, which will 
>ultimately give us tens of thousands, or more, untrained and probably 
>more than not unlicensed GMRS "radio operators" all on their radios 
>causing mass confusion.  As to why 85 out of 77000 are opposed and the 
>rest are silent, I'll bet that most have never heard of either 
>organization and therefore have no opinion.
>
>newsline at ix.netcom.com wrote:
>
>> Go do a bit of "Googleing" as I just did.  The organization issung 
>> that statement -- Personal Radio Association -- has -- by its own 
>> admission -- a total of 85 members.  Nobody seems to have ever heard 
>> of it.
>> By comparison, SOS Network is up to about 11,000. 
>> Ask yourself why 85 out of 77000 GMRS operators are opposed and the 
>> rest -- well -- are silent.  I do not put mucg stick in the PRA 
>> position pper because they represent -- really -- nobody.
>>
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