Definition of Money: In the 1990s here at Bob Enyart Live, I wrongly claimed that justice required a return to the gold standard, whereby currency was formerly backed by reserves of precious metals. Years ago you could return a $10 bill, also called a gold certificate, to a bank and receive a certain amount of gold.
* Ten Objections: Bob gave National Sales Tax author Ken Hoagland the first eight objections below to the FairTax, a National 22% Sales Tax (and he kept the last two objections for this list):
* ND Legislature Passes and Recommends Personhood: Bob Enyart talks about Colorado repealing the adultery statute, about the North Dakota legislature voting for and recommending to the voters passage of their state's personhood amendment, and the Wall Street Journal's confusion about which is good, and which is bad, the housing boom, or the bust (see more below).
* Heard 'Round the World: Bob and co-host Doug McBurney examine the Personhood Movement's impact on politics, the culture, the media and the Body of Christ!
* Economics of Envy: Bob asks, as a general rule, who is more greatly harmed, the people taxed to pay for entitlements or the people who receive the welfare? And as Dr. Del Tackett asked the class in Focus on the Family's fabulous Truth Project DVD series, "Is it possible for the government to be guilty of theft?" And the answer is, of course.
Bob responds with biblical wisdom when co-host Doug McBurney asks his "three big questions of the week."
* First: Should the prosecution in a court of law be required to offer a detailed theory regarding exactly how the crime was committed? And what should be the standard to which a prosecution should be held?
* The Law of Unintended Consequences Spreads Disease and Death: When a government socializes health care:
- it steals from some to give to others (violating God's enduring command, Thou shall not steal)
- it becomes a nanny state wagging it's finger at you for eating even foods that are good for you like fats
* Washington D.C. Housing Prices UP; Killers in Hell are DOWN: Jack Kevorkian is now in hell awaiting Judgment Day, and likely, so is a Denver killer. Also, home prices are down all over the country, but not in Washington D.C., where they are up 11% since 2009! Why? Is it because the climate there is so desirable? No.
* Brief Discussion of Execution and Monetary Policy: is followed by a debate with a caller on morality and political strategy. (Summary: Jim is upset with Bob Enyart because Ken Buck kills some children.)
* Doug McBurney sits in for Bob and volunteers to be a witness in the future judgment of Kent Alterman of Comedy Central. Alterman attempts to justify his blasphemy of Jesus Christ in the new show "J.C.".
* Planned Parenthood of the Heartland not only murders unborn babies, they cheat and steal while committing their atrocities.