Point of View July 24, 2024 – Hour 2 : The Child Evangelism Fellowship

[00:00:00] First of all, we'll talk about child evangelism. And of course we do talk about evangelism from time to time, but certainly when we talk about the need to reach the younger generation, that is key.

[00:00:32] And oftentimes when I speak, especially if I'm with a youth group, I'll say, okay, how many of you became Christians before the age of 18? You know, kids, most of them, if they're a Christian group, have raised their hand or even if I'm talking to adults, I'll ask that.

[00:00:45] And usually one of three places they became Christians. One, maybe through a vacation Bible school that maybe the local church had put together, or two, from maybe going to a Christian camp, or three, and more likely for many of them through child evangelism fellowships.

[00:01:03] So I thought it would be good as we're in the midst of the summer and thinking about the fall, that it would be great for you to know a little bit more about this organization. And then we'll get back to some issues in the news.

[00:01:15] Child evangelism fellowship, you can go to cefonline.com. We have that on our website. And joining us is Fred Prye. He is an individual that became a second career CEF missionary about 20 years ago after 25 years in business.

[00:01:30] First was directing the local chapter in Pennsylvania, which then led to being the state director in Virginia and of course now the USA Ministries. He's the acting vice president of administration for child evangelism fellowship. Fred, thank you for joining us today here on Point of View.

[00:01:46] It's so good to be with you, Kirby, and also with your listeners. Let's begin to give people some background. I have certainly worked with CEF all these years, but again for maybe some listeners, especially if they're young Christians or new Christians and maybe are not familiar with

[00:02:03] this organization, it has certainly had an incredible impact. Let's go into your website and talk about what I think I came up with, 29 million children impacted in just last year alone to 2023. But tell us more. Yes, it's exciting to share that with you and your listeners.

[00:02:22] CEF has been around since 1937, and God has just continued to bless this ministry from its really minuscule start up back in 1937 to what it's become today where we are in almost every nation in this world with ministry to boys and girls sharing the good news of Jesus Christ.

[00:02:44] So again, let's talk about how that is done because there are people that might say, well, how do I get involved? First of all, there's a contact point there. Have a question on where to get involved, there's a place to do so.

[00:02:58] And again, you can find out where you might have a chapter or individuals that you might want to connect up with, but talk about how people can actually get involved with you. First of all, I would say to every single listener, pray specifically for evangelism

[00:03:16] of boys and girls or anyone for that matter. But boys and girls, it's such a rich mission field. The fields are truly white to harvest these children. Of course, Jesus said, let the children come to me and don't forbid them.

[00:03:30] So that's really been our cry for CEF for all these years. And so praise the first thing, the most important thing. The second thing I would say is get involved. Get involved in your local area, get involved in your churches, get involved in ministry to children.

[00:03:47] Some people say, well, I'm not gifted at talking to children. Well, CEF can come alongside and help you through teacher training, prepare you to do that. And it's a wonderful way to minister to children again and see results.

[00:04:02] It's a great return on investment, I like to say, because you see the results almost immediately as boys and girls hear the gospel many times for the first time. They've never held a Bible.

[00:04:15] You talk about the Bible and God just opens their heart and their mind to the truth. And they respond so quickly to that truth. And it's just amazing to see that. So volunteer. You can do that, of course, by connecting with CEF through the website.

[00:04:31] Find a chapter close to you and you can do that very easily. Contact them, get involved, and then do something. Actually go, get involved, pray, go. And you can give, give to the local work, give to international headquarters here outside of St. Louis.

[00:04:50] And you can help us spread the word, get workers in all the nations and reach more and more children for Christ. I just mentioned too that if you go to the website, CEFonline.com, they have a vision statement that has the word every.

[00:05:05] Every child because every child needs to know about God's love. Every nation because there are no geographical limits to the need for the gospel. And every day because children need to continue to grow in their knowledge through God's word.

[00:05:19] And let me just mention, of course, we're talking primarily to an American audience. That's where most of the radio stations that we broadcast are heard. But at the same time, I know other people listen online and so CEF is in many other

[00:05:32] countries and you will see the list of those countries. There's also a map of those countries and the rest. And so if people get involved in a chapter, it seems to me that right now there could

[00:05:44] be a good news club that you could schedule, a five-day club or even this idea of Christian youth in action. Can you give us an idea of what that would look like? Sure. So good news clubs are a great ministry.

[00:05:58] Primarily they're held in schools in America, either in a release time or an after school or before school clubs, sometimes in community centers. But it's a great way for your church to really minister to boys and girls that don't attend your church.

[00:06:13] They won't come to the doors of your church. They won't attend anything, but it's a great way to go out into your neighborhood and have an impact and share the gospel with boys and girls. So good news club is a great avenue to do that.

[00:06:26] Your five-day clubs, that's a summer ministry. Summer ministry is a wonderful time of year. Boys and girls are out and about, many of them looking for things to do because they're not in a regimented setting like a school during the year. So it's a wonderful time.

[00:06:41] A five-day club operates five consecutive days and they come at the same time every day. And there's young people who we call Christian youth in action who actually do that teaching. It's a wonderful interaction between these teenagers, sometimes college students as well, and these children.

[00:07:01] And they respond so well to that. So that's just another wonderful way to minister. And then there's other ways. There's party clubs people can get involved with to teach boys and girls. There's teacher training that can actually even support the work you do in your own churches.

[00:07:18] So there's lots of ways to get involved in ministering to boys and girls. I might just come back after the break and talk about that because you have Sunday School Solutions. So if you're talking about what you can do in your community, of course we've already

[00:07:30] mentioned the fact that good news clubs are available and that's something you can do. My wife and I walk every day. And as a matter of fact, recently we went by this one house where every year, I know they have a five-day club.

[00:07:44] And as we were walking by the second time that day when the kids were getting out, I was struck by the fact that I saw some parents there and I wasn't even sure those parents have ever been to church.

[00:07:56] But I talked to them and they are making sure and they make sure their kids come every year to that five-day club. So you know that sometimes these individuals, whether it's the parents or the kids, won't

[00:08:07] necessarily darken the door of your church but they'll come to a home where they'll be able to hear the gospel and how important that is. When we come back from the break, I do want Fred maybe to talk a little bit about what

[00:08:20] you can do in your own church because they have what's called Sunday School Solutions, teaching about prayer, teaching about worship and a number of other things. So again, even during the break you might go to our website, pointofview.net.

[00:08:34] We have a link or else you can go directly to cefonline.com. We'll continue our conversation with Fred Pryde right after this. Wilfred Riley has written a book about how American history is taught today. It has the provocative title, Lies My Liberal Teacher Told Me.

[00:09:12] In some ways it can be seen as a response to the book by James Lowen, Lies My Teacher Told Me. You can read his opinion column that provides a summary of his book. So what is his concern?

[00:09:22] He says, we often bizarrely hear the claim that American history is taught mostly from the political right and that it presents our nation as bucolic. But in fact many of the best-selling social science books of the past few decades focus

[00:09:34] on the idea that the real history of the United States was a virtually unending bloodbath. Two of those books are Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States and the New York Times bestseller The 1619 Project.

[00:09:48] He adds that the contemporary U.S. national media and professors lean roughly 93% to the left and this has been the case for some time. Within the secondary schools, two popular curricula currently in use come from The 1619 Project and Dr. Zinn himself.

[00:10:05] As I've said before, there are many dark chapters in American history. Those need to be taught but not to the exclusion of the many positive aspects of our history. Scholars are often left with the impression that the U.S. was the only country that had slavery.

[00:10:19] They don't learn how nations in Europe and North America set out to end the institution of slavery. They may learn about European colonialism but not about Ottoman, Mongol or Arab Muslim colonialism.

[00:10:32] His book reminds us that if there is a bias in the nation's textbooks, it is a left-wing bias against America. I'm Kirby Anderson and that's my point of view. For a free booklet on biblical reliability, go to viewpoints.info slash biblical reliability. Viewpoints.info slash biblical reliability.

[00:10:59] You're listening to Point of View, your listener-supported source for truth. Thank you once again. As we talk about child evangelism fellowship for a few more minutes, let me just mention that there are some great resources and if you would like to use some of those resources

[00:11:15] to lead your own children or grandchildren to Christ, that would be really great. If you would like to maybe have one of your children or grandchildren or neighbors or other contacts go to a good news club, you can find out about that and the five-day club

[00:11:30] and so many other activities that are taking place. But I thought, Fred, for just a minute, you might talk about Sunday school solutions because oftentimes they think of CEF as something that happens outside of the church but there

[00:11:43] are very good resources that you have for people to use inside the church, right? Yes. CEF loves to serve the church. We know this is at God's heart. The church is God's heart and we desire even in our purpose statement to connect boys and

[00:12:01] girls and their families to the local church for Christian living. We know that's where it's at and so we've developed a resource called Sunday school solutions and this is really helping people take the mystery out of children's ministry.

[00:12:17] So you can go onto our website, you can see the articles there, there's videos there and you get tips on how you can incorporate effective teaching in your Sunday school. So these are ideas that deal with all kinds of things, how to connect to the heart of

[00:12:33] worship with children, talking about prayer, the Lord's Prayer itself, worship through the Psalms. There's just so many different subjects even dealing with discipline issues and all kinds of other things. So it's a wonderful place of resources for any person who's considering getting involved

[00:12:53] with children's ministry or is already involved in children's ministry. Well, again, those resources, although they are really intended to be used in a Sunday school format, they can also be used at home.

[00:13:06] I have a friend that wrote an article years ago, Family Devotions for the Young and the Restless because any of us that have tried to do family devotions sometimes is trying to get everybody's attention in the right direction and so again because you've had

[00:13:22] so many years, so many decades of experience in terms of understanding how to communicate profound spiritual ideas to young people, there are some great resources there as well. And so I would really encourage people to not only look through those in terms of what

[00:13:42] they could use in their Sunday school class, but you have, as you mentioned before, teach children the acts of prayer, teach children how to understand the Lord's Prayer, teach them about worship with the psalmist, teach them about ways to worship, the heart of worship and all the rest.

[00:14:00] And so there are a variety of ways in which you can take some of those ideas and apply them immediately in your home. And even if you find yourself saying, well, I don't have children anymore, I have grandchildren,

[00:14:13] well then take this link and pass it on to your children so they can pass this on to their grandchildren. So you're really trying to equip the body of Christ, whether it's institutionally within the church, whether it's outside the church, whether it's just individual families, there's

[00:14:29] something really for everyone isn't there on your website. Absolutely. And since we're talking about helping families, one of the key pieces of literature that we have is it's a 60-day devotional for the reader, the early reader or the child that can read easily.

[00:14:48] And then there's an early reader version, Every Day with God. And these are daily devotions specifically written with the child in mind, helping to really express and share the truth, the concepts that are in the scripture, the doctrines in the Bible with children at a child's level.

[00:15:09] So a parent doesn't have to try to figure out how to describe the word of sanctification. It's going to be dealt with in a little different way, but they'll be able to still get that

[00:15:21] concept of what that means for a child that has trusted Christ and is growing. So those are available too. You can go to our website and you can find the links to those as well.

[00:15:33] I want to talk to you about one other issue, and that's the wordless book. It does seem to me that first of all, if you have young children that don't read or let's

[00:15:41] talk about it in a different way, you may be in a community where you'd like to reach out to some of the young people in the community. We just talked with Mark Krikorian about the immigrants here, and some of them don't

[00:15:51] speak English very well or maybe don't read yet. That wordless book is just another way to begin to communicate that. And really that tradition goes all the way back, of all things, to Charles Spurgeon in the middle of the 19th century. That's true.

[00:16:09] Yes, this is one of our key methodologies that we use around the world, and it's a wordless book. The wordless book can get in through areas, through countries that are hostile to Christianity because there are no words.

[00:16:25] But it is definitely an effective tool to share about the love of God, who God is, of course the depravity of man, man's sin, and that separation from God. And it goes through the colors of the wordless book and really is a way of teaching a child

[00:16:42] or anyone for that matter what the gospel really is using colors. Colors in a wordless book, colors that you just see in your home or outdoors. You can, of course, you see those colors anywhere, but it uses the colors of what we call the

[00:16:57] gold color, the dark color, the clean color, the red color, of course, representing Christ and his sacrifice. And then there's a clean is really a white, but we call it clean because he washes our sins white as snow. And then there's a green color for growth.

[00:17:17] And so it uses those colors really just to share the gospel with boys and girls. And it's a wonderful tool. I just mentioned again that there is a store there so you can find some of those resources. There's some graphics that you want to maybe use that.

[00:17:32] You'd really be filled led to develop something in your own community. Some great material about teaching kids about salvation. Of course, we've already talked about the whole Sunday school solutions and resources. So Fred, you've got a great resource there and people can simply go to cefonline.com that

[00:17:51] stands for child evangelism fellowship. And so I appreciate you joining with us today as we've spent some time talking about evangelism and especially child evangelism. Our next step is for people to go to that website, find out if there's a local chapter

[00:18:05] that they can already know about, maybe support and also take advantage of all the resources that they can use in their home and in their church. That's wonderful. It's been a privilege to join you and your listeners. Let's take a break.

[00:18:18] And when we come back, we're going to get back to some issues in the news. Let me one more time just mention that we've got a couple of things that we can talk about.

[00:18:26] First of all, if you go to the website pointofview.net, you will see the link first of all to of course Mark Krikorian and I think you will want to use and take advantage of some of that at the Center for Immigration Studies and at CIS.

[00:18:42] And then of course we already talked about child evangelism fellowship. So it's cefonline.com. But again, you don't have to remember all that. Just simply go to the website at pointofview.net. You'll find that. My viewpoint's commentary today is about American history.

[00:18:57] You know, we need to teach that to our kids as well. Matter of fact, we need to teach it to ourselves because the reality is we haven't really been taught in some respects the real history of America.

[00:19:08] This one comes from Wilford Riley who wrote a book which I would recommend to you, The Lies My Liberal Teacher Told Me. It's really kind of a response if you think about it to a book that came out a while back

[00:19:19] about The Lies My Teacher Told Me which was from a liberal point of view and if nothing else just a good focus on the fact that we do need to bring back the really important aspects of American history. Of course there are some dark periods of American history.

[00:19:37] There's some dark chapters. Those need to be taught but not to the exclusion of the many positive aspects of our history. So that is available. And if you go to the website, you'll see that Karen has put up a little banner there

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[00:23:11] And now here again is Kirby Anderson. Back for the final half hour of the program today and I just might mention as a program alert and a little bit of an understanding of what we're going to be doing tomorrow,

[00:23:23] we're going to have our friend June Hunt in studio. Going to talk about the issue of worry, easy to worry in light of all the things happening right now. And then we'll get back to some issues in the news.

[00:23:34] So again, that is something that I certainly would encourage you to be watching for. We'll have her in studio for the first hour and then we'll get back to some very important topics.

[00:23:44] One of the things that occurs to me that I should try to explain is even though right now it is the reasonable assumption that Kamala Harris will be the presidential candidate on the Democratic ticket and will pick a vice presidential candidate, it isn't necessarily a done deal.

[00:24:02] And I think I would be remiss if I didn't talk about that and as illustrated by this article by Nick Aroma, it's our last article we've posted here, in which he said the Democratic

[00:24:13] elite have managed to shove Joe Biden to the side and now the move seems to be to swap Kamala Harris into the nomination. Whilst he still has some big endorsements and delegates who have come over to her, there

[00:24:26] are some who are not on board with all of this selection rather than an election. And she is, of course, still behind in the polls, although I suspect we're going to see a significant bump in the next day or two when some of those polls come out because,

[00:24:40] of course, there's sort of that honeymoon period and all that. But it was interesting because he then takes you to, in the article, what do some of the elite thinkers and donors think about this?

[00:24:55] And it's probably illustrated, before I get back to that article we've posted, to something that also came from our good friend Gary Bauer because what he said is we're all witnessing something truly disturbing that happened this weekend.

[00:25:07] A sitting president of the United States surrendered his party's nomination to various, Gary uses the word henchmen, in his own party. The so-called defenders of democracy just pulled off a coup. No one voted for Kamala Harris to be the presidential nominee for the Democrats.

[00:25:24] And I remember last night when I was speaking, somebody asked me about the coup and I wondered what he meant. And I figured out he meant this because even in the letter that came out by Joe Biden,

[00:25:35] he said, I believe it is in the best interest of my party and country for them to stand with me. And so in some respects people are talking about the actual progress that Joe Biden has made.

[00:25:50] And I think again, when we've been talking about the fact that we have open borders, we have an economy that's in disarray, a culture and a society and a nation that's in disarray hard to actually see all of that.

[00:26:05] But then of course he was asking this on Monday, where is Joe Biden anyway? We haven't seen him. He made a brief appearance. Now we are going to hear from him. So we'll see where that takes us.

[00:26:14] But nevertheless, he then goes on, that is Gary Bauer goes on to talk about the fact that now we're going to have a Chicago coronation. And I don't think that sets very well. Here's what Gary Bauer said, said after the news broke that Biden had dropped out, Kamala

[00:26:29] Harris immediately made it clear that she was running to replace him. Her quick start to shut out any competitors appears to be paying off because he says so far that was on Monday, had 160 house Democrats endorsed her. 36 Senate Democrats have endorsed her, 16 Democratic governors, more than 500 DNC delegates

[00:26:47] have publicly endorsed her. But again, what brought this about? Was it because there was some real crisis? Well, the only real crisis in some respects was the money was not there, which brings me back to my article that we've posted for you to read.

[00:27:05] It's our last article and it says Democratic mega donor dunks all over Kamala Harris and he is criticizing the selection rather than election process. But again, let me just give you a sense of who this is. One of these Democratic donors, his name is John Morgan.

[00:27:27] He already had donated a million dollars to Joe Biden and who knows how much more he will or will not give to Kamala Harris. But here are a few things that he said on the Ingram angle on Monday.

[00:27:41] He said, what I didn't like was a coronation instead of a convention. I didn't like the idea of two or three people picking the nominee because I believe the convention would be providing perhaps a stronger candidate and then went on to say, I don't

[00:27:55] believe that she can win. He said that once Nancy Pelosi endorsed her, that was the end of the convention because Pelosi has called for a mini convention. That's over. Kamala Harris and they're going to live and die with her.

[00:28:12] And then he went on to say, but my thought was if you could pick anybody, don't you go and pick the two strongest people to win? I don't think that they did. He said, and here's his suggestion.

[00:28:23] I think a combination of Joe Manchin, Andy Brashear, Josh Shapiro, Mark Kelly. I got a thousand different scenarios that I think make more sense to win. And nevertheless, he says he thinks that the campaign will actually flounder compared to what the Trump campaign will do.

[00:28:42] In case you say, well, I don't know who some of those people are. Well, Joe Manchin, we've talked about him many times before, indeed has been up until recently and will then step down as the democratic Senator from West Virginia.

[00:28:56] One of the very few democratic Senators who occasionally voted with the Republicans, but he's stepping down. Well, he of course is the democratic governor of Kentucky. Josh Shapiro is the democratic governor and I suspect the likely vice presidential nominee with Kamala Harris.

[00:29:16] I could be wrong, but that's one guess that I will give you. And then you have Mark Kelly, of course, he's the Senator from Arizona. So you have some Senators, you have some governors. The problem for Democrats has always been that even though they have done pretty well

[00:29:31] nationally, even when a Republican wins, the Republican doesn't win by the popular vote. When it comes to what happens in a lot of the states, many more of those states have Republican governors, Republican Senators.

[00:29:47] And so if you want to think of politics a little bit like baseball, I don't always try to come back to a baseball analogy, but this one works pretty well. Then you don't have very good bench strength. You don't have a very good farm team.

[00:30:01] There are fewer democratic governors, fewer democratic Senators that maybe have a national profile. When, of course, when Donald Trump ran in 2016, how many we have on the stage at the time?

[00:30:16] I think 17 at one point and even last couple of times we've had at least more than a half a dozen. That I think illustrates one of the ongoing kind of chronic problems with the Democratic Party.

[00:30:31] And it's interesting here that when you're talking about this mega donor, John Morgan, he mentions a number of names, but notice who he doesn't mention and that is Gretchen Whitmer, Gavin Newsom, a few others that have been mentioned. So we'll see where this all goes.

[00:30:47] But nevertheless, I wanted you to see that it isn't always a foregone conclusion that indeed Kamala Harris will be the president and that someone else like Josh Shapiro will be the vice president. But there's another thing that mitigates against even the argument being made by this and many

[00:31:08] other mega donors. And that is when the Democrats decided to have their convention so late in August, that makes it difficult because we are, I think the last time I calculated, are we 55 days away now?

[00:31:23] It could be even 54 days away from the first day you can vote in Pennsylvania. Are you ready for this? I mean, we are not even sure who the Democratic nominee might be, although I think we have a little bit of an idea.

[00:31:38] But we are that far down the road and so some of this has to be pretty much firmed up pretty quickly. And of course you are right now about three and a half weeks from the start of the convention.

[00:31:51] Four weeks from tomorrow is when you would actually have whoever is the Democratic nominee giving the speech to America. Four weeks from today would be when the vice presidential nominee will give that speech. So it's kind of intriguing to see how that all plays itself out.

[00:32:11] One other thing I thought I'd mention before the break, and we've mentioned this before, is that Joe Rothman has quoted from other people saying that what he predicts, and he has some reason to believe it because he's heard it from a number, that the idea would

[00:32:25] be for Joe Biden to simply go and give maybe a dress on Tuesday in a very tightly scripted farewell address, have a lavish send-off, and then hand the proceedings and the presidency over to Kamala Harris.

[00:32:43] So in a sense she would be running as an incumbent from the last few weeks of August all the way into, of course, the November election. Don't know that that's going to happen, but I thought I'd put it on the table just to

[00:32:58] think about because even though it seems like we're kind of in a glide path, there are all sorts of possibilities and it still could be a bumpy road or a bumpy flight to finally hitting the tarmac.

[00:33:13] So we'll see how it goes, but let's take a break and when we come back, a couple other final comments. Do want to talk about a couple of other issues that are surfacing right now that I think are going to be part of the 2024 election.

[00:33:25] And don't forget, of course, we'll have our good friend June Hunt in studio tomorrow. If you want to find some of the articles we've posted, they're all available at the website pointofview.net.

[00:33:35] There's also a place for you to take action and even sign up and receive the Viewpoints commentaries. All that coming up right after this.

[00:34:22] 26 days, so a quarter of the days before the election for sure can establish. And of course, then you have to say technically you're not elected until the next day. So it's like 27 days until we for sure know actually who the nominee is on the Democratic Party.

[00:34:43] And again, one of the things Gary Bauer says is, does that seem normal? You know, he says that of course we see how close we were to a sniper taking out Donald Trump due to what he says the ineptness of the Secret Service.

[00:34:59] And yet here we see how very significant number of individuals took down a sitting president of the United States. And he says, is there any period in American history where both party nominees almost got destroyed in the same week? Never thought about that before.

[00:35:18] And then he goes on to say, and I'll leave it with that, it is totally legitimate for millions of Americans to believe that there's a cabal of globalists and deep state operatives. Which I thought is kind of interesting because what he is talking about is something that

[00:35:34] if you are actually a donor, you probably receive this booklet, which I'm holding up here on globalism. And then of course in the past we had this booklet come out on the deep state. And sometimes these are booklets that people read and say, Greg, you just confirmed what

[00:35:50] I had to believe on the issue. Or you brought up an issue I'd never thought of before. But I'm now starting to hear stories of individuals that say, I'm really concerned about the deep state. And somebody says, you don't believe that's a conspiracy theory.

[00:36:03] And they'll pull out my booklet where I even take on, is this a conspiracy theory? Because after all Wikipedia at one point referred to it as that. And then give you all the facts, figures and numbers, including where the phrase deep

[00:36:15] state came from and some of the documentation for it. And at the end people read it and go, huh, never heard that before. I need to investigate that a little bit more. Of course, so we have some further reading in the back of those booklets.

[00:36:29] And it just illustrates that as we've said too many times, and I said it last night when I was speaking to an audience, this is just uncharted territory. This is unprecedented. We don't know where it's taking us.

[00:36:42] And so I hope you'll stay tuned to Point of View every single day because there are a lot of issues to address. My commentary today, of course, is on the issue of American history.

[00:36:53] But I thought I would also mention that next week you're going to hear some commentaries that remind us of some of the themes that we can say with certainty are going to be part of this campaign. One of those I refer to as educational challenges.

[00:37:11] We had a guest in the studio recently that really talked about his rags to riches story, very similar to J.D. Vance's if you think about it in terms of not necessarily coming from family or circumstances that would suggest success.

[00:37:28] And then we, of course, then talked about some of the educational problems. And one of the quotes I used, and I use it in the commentary, came not from this Republican Convention but a previous one in which former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice made this statement.

[00:37:44] When I look at your zip code, I can tell whether you're going to get a good education. And that illustrates why so many times during the Republican Convention you heard people talk about school choice. I guarantee you that you won't hear school choice mentioned in the Democratic Convention,

[00:38:02] at least in a positive way. If it's mentioned at all, it will be in a negative way. And yet for those of you that are Christians and get World Magazine, that's the cover story this week.

[00:38:13] And we may even bring in one of the writers in the future to talk about this because the cover story is saying not only are you seeing, of course, Republicans lots of times line up with school choice, a lot of Democrats are.

[00:38:27] But of course not the Democratic leadership because it is so tied to things like the National Federation of Teachers and the NEA and a number of others. But nevertheless, that is one of those really big issues that I think is going to surface in the future.

[00:38:44] I also have a commentary coming out about the backlash right now on the backfire of minimum wage which is taking place right now for those of you in California. And I go into it in some detail because we now see that just as we have predicted in

[00:39:01] the past when there were progressives in charge of various cities like Seattle and Portland where they wanted to raise the minimum wage significant amounts, the results are always very predictable. Some benefit, those that are still there, but others do not.

[00:39:20] So employers have to cut back on the number of workers or they cut back on the number of hours. Prices go up and California is no different. You can appreciate the desire for wanting to increase the wages of individuals because

[00:39:33] as I pointed out before, as inflation has gone up, wages haven't. But to actually have a shock to the economic system by all of a sudden requiring fast food enterprises to have a minimum wage of $20 an hour because in many cases this is where

[00:39:53] it's maybe the first rung on the ladder. And let's be honest, I talk about it in my commentary here that when I first started out getting jobs, my first at least three jobs, all I could really promise is I had a strong back and a good work ethic.

[00:40:08] But I'm pretty sure I was not worth $20 an hour. And anybody that, and of course the individuals that have been hurt the hardest, don't take it from me, the research done by Beacon Economics are the people hurt the worst, 16 to 19 year olds.

[00:40:22] We want to help them get some kind of success in work and learn some good job skills. We're really pricing them out of the market and that is a sad commentary indeed. Anyway, those are some issues we certainly will be talking about over the next couple

[00:40:39] of weeks and months as we go into this campaign. But while I'm talking about the Viewpoints commentary, I might let you know that the next two days my commentaries are about historical cycles. When I've been out traveling, sometimes people say, you know, what about this?

[00:40:58] Is there a technological cycle? Is there a political cycle? Is there a financial cycle? I've heard of this idea of the fourth turning. What does that mean? So for the next two days, you'll hear commentaries about that and I'm seriously thinking about maybe turning it into a booklet.

[00:41:15] So as you listen to the commentaries or they show up on your inbox, tell me what you think because we do see some very significant cycles and you've heard the phrase before that history does not repeat itself but it rhymes.

[00:41:31] You've heard the old phrase sometimes that hard times create strong men. Strong men create good times. Good times create weak men. Weak men create hard times and many people think we're in that fourth turning.

[00:41:45] So if you're interested in some of that, you might pay attention to the commentaries and most importantly, let me know what you think because I might turn that into a booklet where we pull into some other facts and figures in that regard as well.

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