I had to Share It

OK maybe you do not like the title of this post but still I am ranting and maybe after reading the rest of my story you agree with the title.

From very close I have a view on the medical research world that is ran at universities in Europe and Canada I can’t say much about any where else but I guess it is the same everywhere.

Please do not take this post personal maybe it does not apply to you.

Did you know that lots of your money that came from taxes of gifts to good causes ends up paying for professors personal holidays, iPods, and you name it what else. Till now after 5 years hanging around the research world I still need to meet the first person that did not misused the money given to them.

Maybe you also did not know that grant money given to students is often also done based on you wash my hand I wash yours. I know students that get money funded by gifts that pays there salery but they don’t even do research in that field. I guess it helps if you direct boss is one of the people who decides who gets the money.

Then there are the people that are abused all the time by pushing almost everything in their direction without being rewarded for it or even acknowledged. In one case a person worked on a review for like 1.5 years and send it to her supervisor who then left it hanging for 8 months and then asked the person to edit it and this without even reading it!

I could keep going with this post but maybe it is time to stop before I make it even worse. One piece of advice don’t give money for medical research it is a waste of your money first the good course keeps a BIG part for there administration cost to pay for fancy parties and meetings in very fancy hotels and then the small part that is left ends up like I stated above. If you want to do good with your money then do it yourself that is the only way you really know it gets something done!

Remember my first post of the money the MS Society send me?

So after sending me 5 cents and a bunch of address labels in September today the mailman again brought me an envelope full of address labels and 5 cents from the MS Society of Canada.

That means in two months they send me so many address labels that I now have enough for the next 10 years and again I got some changes. But why do they keep bugging me with the question about money?

To me if you can send me money and goodies then you do not have to beg for money. Use your money smarter that is what I would do.

And besides sending me all that stuff also is not very good for the enviroment. Now there is more plastic ending on the landfill because I can’t use all those goodies. And then there is the waste of paper.

I am pretty sure if they would not have send all those begging letters the world would have less MS because less pollution would be better for out health I am sure we do not have to get more prove of that!

From September 30e 2008 you can register your phone number and get ride of most of those phonecalls that you aren’t waiting for trying to sell you lots of things.

Just go to www.lnnte-dncl.gc.ca and register you phone number.

Guess what I got in the mail today!

Yep I got mail from the MS Society of Canada and they of course want some donations. Nothing wrong you would say and in principal there is nothing wrong with that but what was really in the mail.

A letter with lots of free address stickers that every good cause in Canada seem to send you and so I don’t need but a well if they want to do that OK. But this letter contained MONEY yes you read it right they put a nickel on the letter.

Isn’t it just insane that the MS Society start sending out Money and not just money but money that people like you and me donated to them. It is just outrages that this happens.

My money keeps in my wallet when it conserns the MS Society of Canada from now on. If they don’t know how to spend money right then why send them anything anyways!

The 5 cents they send me will go back to them in there included prepaid envelope with a link to this post so that they know what I think.

Man I didn’t know that thunder could be this loud. It didn’t seem that close but it was loud enough to make my apartment building shake and all the car alarms in the neighborhood go off.

I guess this is nature saying don’t mess with me!

OK I got my electricity bill and this time it is $27.95 and maybe you think not bad and OK maybe the amount is not bad BUT if you look closer at my bill you notice that only $7.44 of this bill is the actually electricity. YES that means that more the 20 dollars of my bill is fees but not the actually electricity. So even if I decide to try to save even more electricity then i already do i will still haven’t o pay those fees and they are not even based on my usage so I will always have at least a 20 dollar bill as long as i want electricity in my home.

I don’t agree with this OK fees are necessary i guess but would it be more fair if they adjust them based on usage to?