in a big, big way. this is a rare look into the utah bishops central warehouse in salt lake city. there s sugar, there s salt, there s wheelchairs, there s toilet paper. a half-million square foot monument to the mormon commitment to helping others. this is crazy. rick foster is a manager of the church s welfare operations. it looks like there is almost everything in here to sustain human life. is that an exaggeration? it is not at all. nothing extravagant, but basic commodities you would find in any grocery store. this would make the people from costco jealous, i think. it almost seems endless. and almost everything in here was produced by the church for charity. almost everything was used to
there is no tie to that whatsoever. welfare director rick foster says the goal is to get people back on their feet as quickly as possible. to that end, there are now 327 mormon employment offices around the world. and if you need clothing, there are thrift stores, too. and a lot more we haven t shown you. mormons really do believe they are their brother s keeper. it s a commitment and a belief to follow christ in the way that we live. and the way he lived his life was helping take care of the poor. so let s go back through the job description of the bishop and a subplot here. can you picture mitt romney as a bishop? absolutely skpch. and so many people wish he would do a little more of that because you re sort of the pastor of a flock, as it were. 400-some members? people who are having trouble making their ends meet, trouble with a rent check, they would
another very interesting note, harry, is that when you look at the mormon faith, they are very self-reliant. they even have their own safety net. can you tell us about that. yeah, i ll tell you. we had an amazing experience. we had a very rare look inside a place called the bishop s warehouse, just outside of salt lake city. well, you should take a look. reporter: this is a rare look into the utah bishop s central warehouse in salt lake city. but there s sugar, there s salt, there s wheelchairs, there s toilet paper. a half-million square foot monument to the mormon commitment to helping others. this is crazy. rick foster is a director of the church s welfare operations. it looks to me like there s almost everything in here to sustain human life. is that an exaggeration? it is not at all. nothing extravagant, but basic
says medicare can stay on its current path, even obamacare acknowledges that and we shouldn t measure ourselves against a mythical future of medicare that is not sustainable. medicare itself literally crowds out all other government spending at the end of the day. we cannot sustain that. we have to get medicare solvent. rick foster, the chief actuary came to the budget committee the other day and said one of the best things we can do to save medicare and bend that cost curve, and help inflation is to go to the type of system we are proposing. chris: medicaid and i better ask, because i m facing this in the reports, the reports are that you will save $1 trillion over ten years on medicaid. true. those numbers are different as well. you will see our specific numbers we will propose block grants to the states and have had so much testimony from the governors, saying give thus freedom to customize our programs to tailor the unique but, critics say you are not reforming, tha
increases, the key is, nobody says medicare can stay on its current path, even obamacare acknowledges that and we shouldn t measure ourselves against a mythical future of medicare that is not sustainable. medicare itself literally crowds out all other government spending at the end of the day. we cannot sustain that. we have to get medicare solvent. rick foster, the chief actuary came to the budget committee the other day and said one of the best things we can do to save medicare and bend that cost curve, and help inflation is to go to the type of system we are proposing. chris: medicaid and i better ask, because i m facing this in the reports, the reports are that you will save $1 trillion over ten years on medicaid. true. those numbers are different as well. you will see our specific numbers we will propose block grants to the states and have had so much testimony from the governors, saying give thus freedom to customize our programs to tailor the unique but, critics