MDA Telethon! THANKS!!!!!!!!!!!

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I want to thank everyone who donated to the MDA! The National total was $58 million. Every little bit helps. Our LOCAL raised $395 thousand. If you have a donation...call your Local MDA office and still donate...It's NEVER too late!:loveya :loveya :loveya :loveya
 
I've worked in direct care with disabled people for about 8 years. I've done everything from bathing 80 year old disabled women to spoon-feeding profoundly mentally retarded people.

The last things in the world disabled people need are handouts and pity. The MDA and Jerry Lewis make me sick. The majority of able bodied people can't even walk through the mall without staring at a disabled person or recoiling in horror when a retarded person speaks to them. They do everything from clutching their children to speaking baby talk.

People feel compelled to "donate" from the comfort of their living rooms because underneath their "charity" is fear and discomfort brought about by seeing disabled people right in front of them on their TVs instead of their funny little sitcoms. "Maybe if I donate they'll all go away and I won't have to look at them".

For more information on the complete joke that is the MDA telethon check out http://www.stoppity.org
 
Wow Paul!!

I agree with you on most of what you said and I've seen that site before. Jerry Lewis is a jerk and has always been one. His crying and carrying on during the Labor Day Telethons would be funny if it weren't so pithetic. Plus after 9-11 and all that money donated never getting to who it was donated to is just another reason I don't donate anymore. The Telethon is a scam........a rip off and just plain robbery.
 
I agree 100% with you Paul. That was the best worded piece on the disabled that I have ever heard in my life.
 
Originally posted by paul
I've worked in direct care with disabled people for about 8 years.  I've done everything from bathing 80 year old disabled women to spoon-feeding profoundly mentally retarded people.

The last things in the world disabled people need are handouts and pity.  The MDA and Jerry Lewis make me sick.  The majority of able bodied people can't even walk through the mall without staring at a disabled person or recoiling in horror when a retarded person speaks to them.  They do everything from clutching their children to speaking baby talk.  

People feel compelled to "donate" from the comfort of their living rooms because underneath their "charity" is fear and discomfort brought about by seeing disabled people right in front of them on their TVs instead of their funny little sitcoms.  "Maybe if I donate they'll all go away and I won't have to look at them".

For more information on the complete joke that is the MDA telethon check out http://www.stoppity.org
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YOU ARE A COMPLETE JERK! I myself have MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY called FASCIOSCAPULOHUMERAL. It weakens facial, upper body, and lower leg muscles. I am unable to lift my arms over my head, fully close my eyes, and walk correctly. I recently obtained an ankle brace to help me walk without twisting my ankle. If it weren't for MDA and Jerry Lewis...I wouldn't have been able to afford that brace, or any other theropy. I was in denial for a LONG time until my condition started getting worse. I thank the MDA for all of the help and support that I recieve from the doctors.
You Paul sound like a very unhappy person. I wish you were in my shoes when I was 17. You see that is when I was diagnosed and started having problems. You try to buy a brace or a wheel chair from your own WALLET for $2000.00 when you don't have the money to buy it.
You know what I think is pitty.....IS PEOPLE TAKING ADVANTAGE OF THE SYSTEM! Like WHORE mothers on wellfare, and LAZY homeless people who are capable of working, but want handouts!
I DONT WANT HANDOUTS!!! I wish I was able to work, but I can't! Last year I had 17 jobs....you want to know why, because I was too SLOW! If I asked for help.....I always got a SIGH! OR people complained, because they had to stop what they were doing to help me. YOU try working like that. I always knew when they were gonna release me. Sure it was an EOE, but after amonth they didn't have to be anymore. EVERYPLACE wanted me to be fast.....why as long as I did the Job correctly! SPEED is not everything....BUT quality is!
YOU my friend NEED some HELP! It is very sad that you feel this way about the MDA....it hasn't done anything to you...if you dont want to give DON'T! The MDA is no different than the "WALK FOR CURES" or any other charity! BUT someday you or someone you know will be faced with a physical challenge....and you'll be glad that places like the MDA is around to help.
 
I guess you failed to understand my post and chose to simply have a knee jerk reaction.

I have a mentally retarded sister. I work in direct care. I've wiped people's asses, I've hand bathed people that are incapable of doing it themselves, I cook, clean and care for a home with 5 physically and mentally disabled people so I don't think that I qualify as some "jerk" who "doesn't care".

If people want to give to a charity try these other charities that don't waste the donations on high salaries of self rightous celebrities:

http://www.nod.org/cont/dsp_cont_loc_hme.c...locationNm=Home

http://www.adapt.org/

http://www.aapd-dc.org/

Here's a quote from your precious Jerry Lewis telling us how he feels about the disabled: ""If it's pity we'll get money. I'm just giving you facts. Pity? You don't want to be pitied because you're a cripple in a wheelchair? Stay in your house!"


The MDA is a scam, and Jerry Lewis is a con artist. Try reading my post again and maybe you'll understand.
 
Is not this Fund drive to find a cure?If they do find a cure how many people would loose there jobs?I question this annual variety show too?I think its great that they help buy equipment for people who suffer from MD.But come on people Jerry Lewis has other motives involved.Start sending victims a check every year Jerry.and make there life they have happy.;)
 
The MDA helps Directly with those who have NEUROMUSCULAR DISEASES! Why would I go to those other organizations when I can get the more help on my DIRECT handicap. Those places can't help me, like the MDA can. TRUST ME my parents tried...cause my dad thought the same way you do...til he found out how the MDA can help! With those other places they do several illness, when the MDA focuses on NEUROMUSCULAR DISEASES only! Who cares what you think about Jerry Lewis, and why you hate him so much! What has he done to you personally? NOTHING! So don't slam on him and what he is doing....without him and his help the MDA would be nothing, and I and other people wouldn't have the help that we recieve. Don't read those damn tabloids or magazines...you are stupid for believeing those anyway!
 
i personally like st. jude, it helps so many children if i were to donate i'd give it to that hospital
 
Originally posted by ghettozoe03
i personally like st. jude, it helps so many children if i were to donate i'd give it to that hospital
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St Judes helps people with cancer and Leukemia.....which is more curable than MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY! I gave to St Jude a couple of years ago, because my uncle HAD Leukemia. I still and always will have MD. And it will get worse. Every body has their prefrences on who they donate too. NO Prob with that, but when some one slams on the Charity that helps some one else...Is plain RUDE and UNCALLED for.
 
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