I do not find anything disagreeable to me in your post. Things work at the local level despite National. They do come up with some good stuff as well, so all is not lost... but I have little sympathy or tolerance for much of the nonsense at/from National. There is also a $ crisis constantly at all levels, which is sad, but way OT - it has created some of the problems of focus over the years. Events of the Vietnam era wrought terrible things on US Scouting that it has never recovered from.