Posted by:
elciz
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Date: August 21, 2014 02:58PM
The facts, as we know them, are that these people are well above average in terms of home value. Now in the case of several of them, some deceased, they were essentially life long church employees (Hinckley, Maxwell, Monson, Packer, etc.). Many have worked for extended periods in positions in which the business was owned by the LDS church...Holland and Oaks as BYU president, Bednar as a BYU Idaho president, Maxwell as a church education executive (and Holland before he was the BYU president). Of course Monson and Hinkley worked exclusively for the Mormon Church. The interesting thing is that there has been a shift towards more wealth among these guys. Spencer Kimball lamented that there were no carpenters or electricians in the quorum. He had been an insurance salesman. Now the education, job experience, and family background of all these guys falls into some very telling categories....generally they are related somehow, they are all white, their families were Mormon royalty, and they have advanced degrees and were very well off before they came into the quorum. Also interesting is who has NOT become an apostle...Jon Huntsman Sr. and Mitt Romney. My belief is that they are required to deed over everything, homes, pensions, etc., to the church upon acceptance into the quorum. By so doing it is guarenteed that they will never leave the church and damage it by telling all. THIS is the reason there really has never been a person come out of the quorum and tell all. A very, very, wealthy person like a Huntsman or Romney would not be willing to deed over all their wealth, and wouldn't because they want it to become "inter-generational wealth", therefore they could not be "controlled" like other well off but not super rich persons like Packer or Monson, etc. The church doesn't just "take care" of these guys, they take care of their kids and grandkids. The leverage they have over them is unbelievable.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 08/21/2014 03:00PM by elciz.