You may very well be onto something here. Historically, the 2 organizations really haven't gotten along that well. It goes back to the founding of the BSA in 1910. That same year, the Camp Fire Girls were in the process of organizing. BSA gave them a hand cause BSA saw them as their natural sister organization. Two years later Girl Scouts-USA was founded. There was always friction between BSA and GS-USA over the use of the term "Scout". BSA's 1916 Congressional Charter essentially gave them a copyright on the word in the U.S. This was obviated in 1950 when the GS-USA got their Congressional Charter.
Interestingly, BSA's patron, Waite Phillips, who bequeathed 127,00 acres of his ranch in north cental NM between 1938-41 (which became Philmont Scout Ranch) later made a similar offer to the Camp Fire Girls and the Girl Scouts-USA if they would merge their organizations. They declined the offer.
3/12/2012– The GS-USA celebrated its centennial anniversary. An anniversary event called “Girl Scouts Rock the Mall” was held later in the year on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., and drew 250,000 people. The national HQ announced in 2012 an organization-wide campaign to raise U.S.$1-billion by 2017 — U.S.$100-million by the national office and U.S.$900-million by the local councils. The money will help pay for a new advocacy campaign to promote leadership activities for girls both in the U.S. and abroad, e.g., to encourage more of them to pursue science careers. The council consolidation plan, which was approved in 2006 and completed in 2010, added 1,850 employees to the pension plan. Many pension plans are suffering now because of the low interest rates that were introduced after the SEP 2008 financial crisis to help heal the bad economy. Some local councils brought a lawsuit against the national HQ charging that it exacerbated the plan’s problems by offering extra financial incentives to people who opted to take early retirement as a way to soften the blow of merger-related layoffs. The pension plan deficit has now ballooned to more than U.S.$400-million, and councils are being asked to set aside a growing percentage of their payroll to cover the losses.
Between 2003-2012, GS-USA suffered a membership decline from 2,868,085 to 2,291,425 - a 20% decline.
There is already discussion about morphing the co-ed Venturing program into all of the BSA program areas. Apparently this has already happened in other countries. As financial resources/donations become more scare in the Obama Economy, one could see a financial case made to merge BSA and GS-USA. It would be a colossal mistake, but hey, BSA just made 1, why not got for 2?.
Here I was just joking around and it may actually may become a reality!