“President Reagan spent some time in Utah visiting the LDS Welfare system and learning how it worked. Here’s an photo with him and the former and current LDS Church Presidents.”
That’s called campaigning... and?
If President Reagan was merely campaigning on his stop at the Welfare Centers in Utah, then he certainly said some empty words. I respect President Reagan too much to think that lowly of him.
Here are his words. They don’t sound like campaign rhetoric to me. And why would he need Utah’s measly few electoral votes?
“Here is an entire industry, as you can see. It is manned by volunteers, people from the church. The foodstuffs that are here are raised by volunteers, picked by volunteers. They’re brought here, they’re canned, they’re put up in whatever packages are appropriate, and they’re used to distribute to those people who have real need here in the State of Utah and all over the country, for that matter — people from the church. And you wonder why others haven’t thought of the same thing and been able to do this same thing — so much more efficiently with so much less bureaucracy, in fact, virtually no bureaucracy, as compared to government’s attempt to do this. This is all available for the needy, and all produced by volunteers.”