Deep within the bowels of Salt Lake City, Mark Ames is on a fact finding mission, uncovering the murky history of the LDS and the Romney family's role in the religion. It is a long, self-chosen hell for him. A hell that he may extend after the election if Mitt Romney wins. A hell he may even reside in, maybe creating a "Mormon Caliphate" of his own.
In these two installments, Mark happens upon Welfare Square, and tours it. What he found is a historical trove of Romney family connections and Anti-New Deal politics that would make Herbert Hoover proud, all under the banner of the Mormon Welfare Plan.
Without giving too much away:
ROMNEY'S "UNCLE WELFARE" >> Deep in the heart of Mormon country, our Senior Editor discovers Mitt's shameful family secret /
A KINGDOM OF MOOCHERS >> Today, the Mormon church gives a smaller percentage of its annual income to charity than Dow Chemical or Morgan Stanley /
There's a time limit to read these two posts, so hop to it!
Nyerd's take: If Mitt Romney wins, expect him to slowly privatize SS/Medicare/Foodstamps/unemployment insurance, destroy participation rates and risk pools, and dump a ticking time bomb on the next administration. Possible net result: Church based and charity programs start looking good --- even though they are completely incapable of handling such demand. Get your grovelling voice ready, this will hurt.
Not Safe For Work Corporation (NSFWCorp.) is the future of journalism (with jokes). It took a lot of research and money to even write these two dispatches, and there's plenty more where that came from, including Mormon reader responses, desknotes, and a whole cast of great journalists (and War Nerd) committing to this very young project.
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Previous Mark Ames' work on DK here: Mike Elk exposes political intimidation of Koch Industries employees as 3 workers blow whistle
Bonus for extra vetting: ROMNEY’S “LIBERAL” DADDY CALLED SUPPORTERS OF EQUAL RIGHTS AMENDMENT “MORAL PERVERTS”