Brain Trust - Janice Crouse

Dr. Janice Crouse, Senior Fellow of  the Beverly LaHaye Institute, joined the Matt Friedeman Show as part of our Brain Trust.

You attend a camp meeting.

Yes we do.

Several years ago we bought a cottage at Indian Springs Camp meeting.

It's just a time of spiritual refreshing.

Amazingly, this camp meeting is vibrant with young people.

We have seven grandchildren, and they all can't wait for camp meeting.

It's gotta be hot at these camp meeting. Why do it?

Because, as I said, it's so spiritually refreshing.

You're out of touch with all the hectic business of the world.

It's just so spiritually refreshing.

It's so biblically-based.

You just got back from the World Congress on Families. What happened there?

Number one, the fight against all the external forces on the family in Russia is so unique.

They had sponsors for this event - this pro-life, pro-family event.

This event was just very effective in terms of building links between Christians here in this country and Christians in Moscow.

Plus, it gave us a glimpse of how Christians in the corporate world are working together with the church.

It's a beautiful model about how you can combat the disintegration of the family.

Europe certainly needs to hear the message of larger families.

I spoke about how the pro-choice movement, feminism and abortion, have really been devastating to Russia and the United States.

(They have) something like 1.54 children per family, so they are way below replacement level.

I found it very inspiring to see how the government and the church are very, very interested in fixing this crisis.

You just wrote a paper on the fiscal state of America. How bad is it?

This paper is available on our website.

It talks about how our nation is in a crisis.

It's more than just a daunting challenge facing the nation. At $10 trillion, our debt has doubled over the past decade and it will double again before the end of this decade.

We oppose tax increases as a solution to the problem. This is something Barack Obama has been trying to push.

This administration wants to weaken the military, undermine our national sovereignty.

We support what is commonly called "cut, cap, and balance."