rhys wrote:
techknowgn wrote:
eelie wrote:
but too much of the money that people think is going to help folks with cancer is really going to help lance fight legal battles or fly around to his next race. Lance didnt fly commercial to Panama like the other pros did.[/quote]
Why does everyone connect Livestrong paying for Lance private jet? Are we sure? What about Lance paying for it? Like, from his millions earned from Nike, Oakley, Trek, FRS, and various other endorsements deals. The guy is sticking rich from private enterprise.
rule 1 of capitalism: America is about making money so don't judge someone for making a shit load of it.
Its livestrongs jet.
Just to make this apples to apples, I don't think that heads of charities are exactly hurting from a financial perspective. Any one of us would kill for the kind of money they rake in. 2010 salaries. Who wants to bet there are a few jets running around in there? I'm not a Lance fan-boy, but I would be willing to be that he does more to raise money and do good than any of these people do.
I don't claim to know anything about how Livestrong uses their money, but via my dad and brother who are both involved hands-on in coming up with a cure for these diseases, I know they have nothing good to say about any of these charities and how they use their money. Like any other large corporation, it is more about power, and pushing certain drugs and methods that benefit them and their cronies. Remember, there is no money in prevention or a cure, lots of money in extending life/masking symptoms.
Harold Varmus, M.D., Past President/CEO Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
$2,557,403
John R. Seffrin, CEO American Cancer Society
$2,222,272
Includes $1.5 million in a retention benefit approved in 2001, "to preserve management stability." Edward J. Benz, Jr., M.D., President/CEO
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute/Jimmy Fund
$1,252,705
Robert J. Mazzuca, Chief Scout Executive Boy Scouts of America - N.O.
$1,211,572
Thomas C. Nelson, Past Ex-Officio/Past COO AARP Foundation & AARP, respectively
$1,176,614
Includes a separation payment of $682,285. The full amount of Thomas Nelson's compensation was paid by AARP, not AARP Foundation. Edwin J. Feulner, Jr., President Heritage Foundation
$1,098,612
Harry Johns, President/CEO Alzheimer's Association - N.O.
$1,065,524
Includes $392,218 retirement and other deferred compensation. Ernest Allen, President/CEO National Center for Missing & Exploited Children
$1,057,604
Includes $432,542 retirement and other deferred compensation, of which $338,953 is a catch-up amount for underfunded retirement benefits in previous years. Gail McGovern, President/CEO American Red Cross
$1,032,022
Includes a one-time reimbursement of $473,570 for relocation costs to work at the national headquarters. Wayne LaPierre, Executive VP/Ex-Officio National Rifle Association & Foundation, respectively
$970,588
Christopher DeMuth, Past President American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research
$939,059
Includes $528,972 in supplemental executive retirement plan payments. Steven E. Sanderson, President/CEO Wildlife Conservation Society
$927,534
Michael L. Lomax, President/CEO United Negro College Fund (UNCF/The College Fund)
$877,582
Includes $686,080 in retirement funds for 5 full years of service. Joseph V. Haggerty, COO
United Way Worldwide
$864,875
Includes $318,578 SERP imputed income. Jonathan W. Simons, M.D., President/CEO
Prostate Cancer Foundation
$850,188
James E. Williams, Jr., President/CEO Easter Seals
$833,000
Alan J. Lewis, Past President/CEO Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation International
$813,732
Joseph Krajbich, M.D., Orthopaedic Surgeon Shriners Hospitals for Children
$807,917
Includes $401,435 retirement and other deferred compensation. William E. Evans, Director/CEO St. Jude Children's Research Hospital/ALSAC
$795,538
Robert J. Beall, President/CEO Cystic Fibrosis Foundation
$760,446
Rabbi Marvin Hier, President/CEO Simon Wiesenthal Center
$759,026
Howard Rieger, President/CEO Jewish Federations of North America
$707,454
Shulamith Bahat, Past Associate Executive Director American Jewish Committee
$706,563
Includes $530,798 deferred compensation and retirement payments in respect to 50 weeks salary and accrued vacation. Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein, President
International Fellowship of Christians & Jews
$702,417
Abraham H. Foxman, National Director Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith
$689,398
As for Lance admitting that he did drugs, he has absolutely zero incentive to do so, and nothing would come of it if he did. The only people who have come clean are people who have been proven guilty, and have nothing to lose by admitting it. This is not a noble act, it is covering your ass.
I fully believe that most of the peleton post LeMond doped, hopefully this has come to an end and we are seeing clean(er) racing.
Hoping and wishing that Lance comes clean, and thinking that this would change anything or in any way benefit triathlon or cycling is a pipe dream.