CUNA AND THIS ISSUE OF CHOICE....

It's kind of intriguing to watch the folks at CUNA - who frequently put themselves forward as significant cooperative leaders of the Free World [that's why they had to jaunt down to Cuba] - struggle and squirm with the principle of CHOICE for America's credit unions.

After all isn't the...

 FIRST COOPERATIVE PRINCIPLE:

VOLUNTARY MEMBERSHIP?

and the...

SECOND COOPERATIVE PRINCIPLE:

DEMOCRATIC MEMBER CONTROL?

[Here's the link to CUNA's website if you need to check on their principles.]

As CUNA's own member survey, CUNA's Task Force Report, and Diana Dykstra have publicly confirmed. America's credit unions want...

It's the principled thing to do.

Yet CUNA and many of the Leagues continue to wiggle and squirm. The "reasons" against CHOICE, increasingly appear "suspect" - or at least cooperatively "unprincipled".

The opponents of voluntary membership and democratic control within "The System®"

are having a tough time removing "the strong whiff of self-interest" which appears to color their arguments; and, making a "principled" case for coercion is like "trying to nail Jell-o to a wall".

But "the game is not up yet" as we head toward

next week's AACULE Summit at the Four Seasons and the "now or never" CUNA Board meeting in December. 

There is still time for CUNA to try and repackage our principles...

Yep, there sure appears to be a lot of "wiggle room" left in 
"THE SYSTEM®"!!!