If you are a subscriber, you get that yellow slip showing the expired subscriptions. From those you can get a pretty accurate estimate of total subscribers. Multiply that by the subscription fee and you can see that it plainly is not a big operation with a big budget to pay writers and Bruce is also not getting rich off of it.
If you ave something to say, Lou, please consider writing for it. If you are retired, then money should not be the motivator it once was and any risk of devaluing your skill is far diminished. That is not to say that you should not aspire to make money in retirement but motivations should be reevaluated.
Lawrenceville, GA