Despite decades of intense persecution, Christianity is growing
dramatically at a rate that can’t be controlled by the communist
government.  This is changing the social and political fabric of
China.  Former Time Magazine Beijing Bureau Chief, David Aikman,
guests.

When former Secretary of the Treasury, Paul O’Neill, came into
office, he commissioned two economists to find out if the nation
could pay its future liabilities.  The resulting study was so
shocking the Bush administration spiked it and O’Neill was fired.
Why? There is an impossible $44 trillion abyss between the
government’s income and its unfunded liabilities, which grows by more than $1.5 trillion a year.  No politician wants to handle this short-fused
time bomb, which will explode when the baby boomers retire
in less than five years.  Economist Larry Kotlikoff of Boston
University is crying “foul” and says Americans need to know what
the real financial condition of the government is, especially as regards retirement and Medicare. John does an analysis of the Geneva Accord and the latest proposals
for peace in the Middle East.

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