After sitting through the Special Grand Lodge called to deal with our last financial crisis, the Home and School, I can evision what is going to happen.
First will come an inadequate and unconvincing explanation of why the endowment can't pay lodges any money, and why we can't make reliable predictions about it for the future. Warren Buffet will be mentioned..."Even Warren Buffet lost billions in this economy." There will be no suggestions about how a lodge is supposed to formulate an annual budget under these circumstances.
There will follow a long and condescending explanation by the Grand Officers of why increasing the per capita is necessary, followed by three hours of brethren asking for minute explanations of expenses shown on the financial statement. Then several brethren will get up to suggest that if the Grand Trustees went with lucrative investments they happen to know of, this wouldn't be necessary. Then a couple of brethren will get up to suggest we have a bake sale or a talent show, to make up the shortfall.
When the people managing the debate have allowed a maximum level of exasperation and frustration to develop, a vote will be held, and it will fail by a substantial margin. The Grand Lodge Officers will sigh and roll their eyes and say, "okay, we tried, but the brethren don't want us to have financial security. It won't be our fault when everything falls apart."