Mormons help each other. And I have reason to know their help often extends to people outside their Church who they deem worthy and who need encouragment, and a helping hand, and food and clothes and friendly advice.
During the Korean War two of my best friends were Mormons- Marine Captain James De Caro and Army 1st Lt James Bailey.
I understand Romney, who, like Obama, is not a veteran, to have worked on several levels as a Mormon Church leader and I believe him entitled to considerable credit for having done so.
The Mormon Church, like Hizbellah and other Muslim organizations, provides aid to those in need, and I compliment all organizations that do so for doing so..
The Mormon Church owns large tracts of land. And as shown by the following article, one copied from this board,
it invests its money so as to provide it returns that it needs to provide services needed by people.
It does those things not to enrich individual Mormons but to increase the means of the Church needed to foster its goals. And
Its goals are such, and our judicial system is such, that if I live much longer I will not be surprised to see that Mormons, like Muslims, have established their own means of settling disputes.
Whatever your opinion of what the Mormons have done businesswise, here is a part of a post of an article that describes a Mormon business venture that is sure to succeed .
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"BusinessWeek.com.
***look at the actual title of the article.
How the Mormons Make Money
By Caroline Winter on July 18, 2012
http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-07-10/how-the-mormons-make-money Each Copy and Paste Must Be Linked.
Late last March the Mormon Church completed an ambitious project: a megamall. Built for roughly $2 billion, the City Creek Center stands directly across the street from the church’s iconic neo-Gothic temple in Salt Lake City. The mall includes a retractable glass roof, 5,000 underground parking spots, and nearly 100 stores and restaurants, ranging from Tiffany’s (TIF) to Forever 21. Walkways link the open-air emporium with the church’s perfectly manicured headquarters on Temple Square. Macy’s (M) is a stone’s throw from the offices of the church’s president, Thomas S. Monson, whom Mormons believe to be a living prophet.
On the morning of its grand opening, thousands of shoppers thronged downtown Salt Lake, eager to elbow their way into the stores. The national anthem played, and Henry B. Eyring, one of Monson’s top counselors, told the crowds, “Everything that we see around us is evidence of the long-standing commitment of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to Salt Lake City.” When it came time to cut the mall’s flouncy pink ribbon, Monson, flanked by Utah dignitaries, cheered, “One, two, three—let’s go shopping!”
Watching a religious leader celebrate a mall may seem surreal, but City Creek reflects the spirit of enterprise that animates modern-day Mormonism. The mall is part of a sprawling church-owned corporate empire that the Mormon leadership says is helping spread its message, increasing economic self-reliance, and building the Kingdom of God on earth. “The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints attends to the total needs of its members,” says Keith B. McMullin, who for 37 years served within the Mormon leadership and now heads a church-owned holding company, Deseret Management Corp. (DMC), an umbrella organization for many of the church’s for-profit businesses. “We look to not only the spiritual but also the temporal, and we believe that a person who is impoverished temporally cannot blossom spiritually.”
McMullin explains that City Creek exists to combat urban blight, not to fill church coffers. “Will there be a return?” he asks rhetorically. “Yes, but so modest that you would never have made such an investment—the real return comes in folks moving back downtown and the revitalization of businesses.” Pausing briefly, he adds with deliberation, “It’s for furthering the aim of the church to make, if you will, bad men good, and good men better.”
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How the Mormons Make Money - Businessweek
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