Upcoming ANA Election

I spent most of this weekend reading over the candidates views on how the ANA can be improved. Each and every article sounded like any other political sound bite. Examples would include, improve our website, education, internet presence, work on new designs, balance the budget, move into the 21st century.
As an ANA member dealer it sickens me that they have DONE nothing except SELL their name to the highest bidder.
Let me give a few examples.
The ANA website has been updated, and I have yet to hear anyone other than the ANA say anything good about it. It is very hard to navigate, has so many listing errors, and took months to get up and running.
Work on new designs? Does anyone believe this?
Education. They talk about offering services to the Boy Scouts, church groups, schools, coin clubs, and so on. Well ask the next 50 people you meet if they have ever heard of the ANA.
Up the membership to 40,000 How many members come and go within the first year? What is the actual number of members these days? For the most part, members get out what they put in, but the ANA has shown NO desire to boost their numbers. As a perfect example, how many of you have attended an ANA convention? Anyone ever receive a thank you note after the show? A post card? Anything?
Balance the budget? I will leave this one alone. Sounds like every political speech I have ever heard in my life.
Move into the 21st century. Here is another typical topic heard in every political speech. Let us welcome each and every person, let us welcome the children as they are our future, let us embrace each other and move into tomorrow.
We here on the forum have discussed just how well the ANA has embraced everyone, children, and tomorrow. They have not embraced yesterday or today, so why would anyone expect them to embrace tomorrow.

So what does all this mean?
The ANA is supposed to be the "voice" of the hobby.
Recommendations.
Stop selling your name. Your word means nothing if it is for sale.
Stop bowing down Large dealers and grading companies make their own rules. Create and enforce grading standards.
Enforce your own rules. The guidelines mean nothing if they are only enforced on the small.
Be a leader. It is time for the ANA to step up and show the world what this hobby can be. Create real education programs. Offering classes at the 2 conventions is all fine and dandy for the few thousand that show up. We need to reach out to the 100 million collectors, not just the 30 some thousand ANA members.
Get the ANA out of ebay. This would also fall under selling your name, but it is a fact that ebay allows sellers to sell garbage day in and day out. How can anyone respect the ANA if they continue to tolerate this activity?
Put some teeth in your enforcement. The ANA has rules. Sometimes they are enforced, but what are the results? You kick out some dealer. Obviously they are not bothered by this, the sales are not bothered, the magazines are not bothered, so what good are the rules?
What are the benefits? There should be clear benefits to being an ANA member. So far, that boils down to the library. The ANA should focus on creating NEW and BETTER referrence material. Make this available FREE to all members either online or in actual print. Most of the referrence material today uses the poorest photos and details. If you need to see what good pictures are, please look to any Bowers and Merena auction catalog.
The ANA should make their presence known to all collectors worldwide. Create an online library that includes material for ALL coins and currency.
While the museum and library are fine for the few who use it, there has to be an easier way. Creating an online presence is far cheaper than maintaining the actual facility. Stop wasting our money (dues) on hiring people who are out of touch with the hobby. Stop wasting our time with promises back by nothing.
If you really wish to be the future, you have to start today!