I received a request to donate money via purchasing a T-shirt for a presidential candidate yesterday that went through the mission training center, also.
Not being able to read the small print under the name of the candidate I returned the email stating, "Could you please tell me what the small print reads under the candidate's name before I purchase a shirt. I would be concerned if the small print read, "I'm a Mormon, too!"
I haven't heard back yet. LOL! I have a feeling that I won't be receiving any further emails contacts from said candidate. :-)
"In fact, Mormons fall in the middle of the socioeconomic spectrum, their numbers perhaps skewed lower by recent converts who tend to be less educated and less wealthy, according to Furr and others. Even so, Latter-Day Saints are less likely than the general public to be in the lowest income bracket, according to the Pew Research Center."
Would that be before or after paying their 10% gross income, plus all of the supplemental requests, to the LDS Corp?
BTW, why is it that these articles never mention that LDS Inc. requests 10% of GROSS salary PLUS numerous supplemental assessments? And that they request that older, retired members give their money and sign their homes over to the Corp before they will be given a recommend (such as what was and is being done with my 94-year-old father)? And why don't they point out that this 10% payment is demanded before the members are allowed to paticipate in weddings, cleaning the temples, and working for the Corp., etc.?
I think the MTC has absolutely nothing to do with it. It would be more accurate to say something like: "Rich, politically connected daddies and trust funds prepare US Presidents of tomorrow."
Of course it still premature to even talk about those guys as actually being presidents.
Since the men who run corporate America are natural crooks, it's good to have a place like the MTC where you learn to lie and bully the people below you.