I have a lifelong friend that was a high school teacher-hockey-baseball-football coach that's absolutely bonkers over donating time and money to the Jerry Lewis MS dealie.He's a lifelong bachelor with no kids so he's sort of taken on the roll of being a father to Jerry's kids.He even has personalized plates on his fleet of antique cars and cycles concerning fighting MS.He's pretty much a knee jerk reaction liberal and has total blind faith in government run social spending and what non profits do with donations.
So how long has Jerry Lewis been doing the telethon?40 years?Are they anywhere nearer to finding a cure for M.S.now than in the early 60's?Do people live longer with MS now than they did back then and is their quality of life better now?I don't see it.Even if I showed an ounce of doubt about the progress of the MS foundation wasting money or not making progress to a guy involved in it like my friend he would go balistic on me.These people in the organization that are the real bread winners for the foundation are like over zealous cult members with 100% devotion.
Then the MS organization has taken in billions and billions of dollars and the vast majority goes to what they say is research that they can't prove has resulted in any headway finding a cure.Contrary to belief,the organization spends very little on doing individual deeds like building home ramps,buying wheelchairs etc.The summer camp is one of their bigger projects but in my opinion they use it for PR purposes and propoganda for fund raising.They actually send donation requests in the mail to ask people with MS to donate money to the foundation.I found that to be outrageous.
Then when it comes to auditing the foundation they are very defensive and use fuzzy book keeping.When they don't actually buy allot of goods for people with MS and just say that allot of money was spent on research time it really stinks because there can be allot of wiggle room and fudging on where the money was spent.
The top CEO makes between 400-500 K a year along with lucrative benefits but that really doesn't send up a red flag with me as to being outrageous.As with any charity they have far too many employees especially on the higher rung of the ladder from the way it sounds.
Did anyone know that there is a large group of people with MS that are anti MS foundation and Jerry Lewis's telethon?They claim that they had no visible symptoms of MS and were told at fund raising events to sit in wheel chairs and contort themselves and such.They say that Lewis and the foundation talk about them as if they were worthless,dependent and helpless heaps of flesh with no future and no reason to be happy about their lives.Lewis berated one of these women with MS that was overweight screaming at her calling her a living waterbed.
Does anyone here think that maybe once upon a time when Jerry Lewis was in more financial dire straights when his career went south and his business ventures like movie theater chains were flopping that he needed MS funds to help make a living?I'm to the point where I think his heart is in the right place but his way of thinking and preachy delivery are over the top where he's just being used as a figurehead sort of like being an Alan Glick casino owning front man at the mafia run Stardust casino in Vegas in the 70's.
What breaks my heart are these throngs of little kids that come from private sector employed families making 25-45 K a year and they bring in buckets of change as donations where they denied buying themselves a few pieces of candy here or there or a toy or two over the course of a year.I see that bucket of change being spent on a bottle of wine on the expense account of some MS official on a fact finding trip to Vegas.
So how long has Jerry Lewis been doing the telethon?40 years?Are they anywhere nearer to finding a cure for M.S.now than in the early 60's?Do people live longer with MS now than they did back then and is their quality of life better now?I don't see it.Even if I showed an ounce of doubt about the progress of the MS foundation wasting money or not making progress to a guy involved in it like my friend he would go balistic on me.These people in the organization that are the real bread winners for the foundation are like over zealous cult members with 100% devotion.
Then the MS organization has taken in billions and billions of dollars and the vast majority goes to what they say is research that they can't prove has resulted in any headway finding a cure.Contrary to belief,the organization spends very little on doing individual deeds like building home ramps,buying wheelchairs etc.The summer camp is one of their bigger projects but in my opinion they use it for PR purposes and propoganda for fund raising.They actually send donation requests in the mail to ask people with MS to donate money to the foundation.I found that to be outrageous.
Then when it comes to auditing the foundation they are very defensive and use fuzzy book keeping.When they don't actually buy allot of goods for people with MS and just say that allot of money was spent on research time it really stinks because there can be allot of wiggle room and fudging on where the money was spent.
The top CEO makes between 400-500 K a year along with lucrative benefits but that really doesn't send up a red flag with me as to being outrageous.As with any charity they have far too many employees especially on the higher rung of the ladder from the way it sounds.
Did anyone know that there is a large group of people with MS that are anti MS foundation and Jerry Lewis's telethon?They claim that they had no visible symptoms of MS and were told at fund raising events to sit in wheel chairs and contort themselves and such.They say that Lewis and the foundation talk about them as if they were worthless,dependent and helpless heaps of flesh with no future and no reason to be happy about their lives.Lewis berated one of these women with MS that was overweight screaming at her calling her a living waterbed.
Does anyone here think that maybe once upon a time when Jerry Lewis was in more financial dire straights when his career went south and his business ventures like movie theater chains were flopping that he needed MS funds to help make a living?I'm to the point where I think his heart is in the right place but his way of thinking and preachy delivery are over the top where he's just being used as a figurehead sort of like being an Alan Glick casino owning front man at the mafia run Stardust casino in Vegas in the 70's.
What breaks my heart are these throngs of little kids that come from private sector employed families making 25-45 K a year and they bring in buckets of change as donations where they denied buying themselves a few pieces of candy here or there or a toy or two over the course of a year.I see that bucket of change being spent on a bottle of wine on the expense account of some MS official on a fact finding trip to Vegas.