Third, one of the featured speakers at yesterdays daylong march on washington, celebrating 19630th anniversary of the march on washington. Welcome to washington journal on the sunday, august 25, 2013. We will play you a couple of more comments from yesterdays speech. The question this morning, does new Technology Create better jobs . We will show you the opinion piece that is prompting our question. Here are a couple of ways to participate in the discussion, as usual. By phone make sure you mute your television or radio when you call in. You can reach us on twitter or facebook. Or send journal cspan. Org us an email, the email address is or send us an email, the address is journal cspan. Org. The front page this morning of t,e washington pos the headline part of the reporting this morning area did president obama will be speaking on the actual Anniversary Day at the lincoln memorial. That is coming up on wednesday. Heres the front page of the New York Times and their front page photo from the march yesterday e froml play you mor that. Comeshnology and jobs, it in an opinion peas from the New York Times, written by two economics professors. They write the Unemployment Rate is stuck at levels not seen since the early 1990s. The portion of adults working is four Percentage Points below its peak in 2000. Our question to you, does Technology Create better jobs . What is your experience . Alabama is were the first caller is. Good morning. Factr yes, as a matter of i have formed a civil rights nonprofit organization. We have a new concept, the new everyone, to have starting with fifth raiders, to own their own business. Graders, to own their own business. Whatever your passion is, own your own business. We support each other and our businesses. That is going to eliminate us looking for jobs and we will be creating jobs. When we have the young people on a mindset of owning a business of course, people who cannot find jobs, that is how we will create jobs. We start with the elementary and go all the way up to adults. Even senior citizens. If we arer of fact, opening a business we are going to have more passion. Not only that, we can create jobs. Even with the technology we are going to use that in such a way that it will be more effective in Going Forward. As long as we actually have jobs we are going to have racism, discrimination, favoritism, and these are the things we have been fighting against ever since we have been in this country. Owning our own businesses, whatever it may be, we are going to and of course not only if you are owning a business, you may actually be an employee someplace else. You still will have your business and you can actually employee others. Do you understand the concept that we have . Host thank you for calling and telling us about. Omar is on our democratic slime in new york. Democratics line in new york. Go ahead with your comment. Caller the discrimination rate in this country is high against blacks. These are the things we are trying to fight against, you know . We will overcome it. It takes time. Blood, sweat, and tears, you know . Im proud of the work your people are doing. Georgia, joan, does new Technology Help create jobs . Caller i believe new Technology Creates new jobs. I also feel education in the schools from Early Childhood on up have not cared not along withd ride we could have a population of students who are prepared for the job. I have heard that we need to go overseas because we do not have the educated population here. Why dont we . We havent provided the education that kept abreast with what is happening with the technology area. It is education and technology. I do believe that since technology has made unveils and bundles of money that they should be giving back to internships and training programs, particularly in areas where schools have been closed, where they are underfunded, and begin to train the population here at home rather than going overseas. Host what do you think about the idea a couple of callers mentioned ago. Teaching kids from fifth grade to own their own business. Caller i think that is absolutely excellent. I am a retired educator from new york. Even in our special ed programs we had our manual our middle School Students clock in. They would write up what there will be doing for the day what they will be doing for the day. I think that is important. We had Occupational Therapy for those students, so theyve received what the general education students did not receive. We need to bring our children bring our parents to train children at home how to use technology. Into moreill get specifics of the opinion peas we talked about this morning. Some news on that huge fire in yosemite on the west coast, this is the l. A. Times. The separatist the San Francisco chronicle, a bit more optimistic. Lets go to Lebanon Junction kentucky. Pat is on our independent line. What you think about the role of technology in creating jobs . Host i think it has hurt the country as a whole. I work in the printing industry. Profits have gone down and they actually let go of a lot of people because of the kindle and all of that stuff. A lot of magazine titles are going to the internet instead of being printed in paper form. That is really hurt us. That has really hurt us. Host is there training for you for Newer Technology that comes in . Aller not really rea it is mainly warehouse type jobs. It is a service type job. Great demand of Technology Type jobs in this area. Host how far are you from louisville . Caller 30 miles. Host thanks for your call. From the New York Times lets hear from lisa in jacksonville, florida. Good morning on our democrats line. Host i wanted to weigh in on the technology issue. I have a masters degree in urban planning. I have worked in Civil Service for about 25 years. Recently, due to budgetary a reduction in my income for 11,000. It has spurred me to start my own business and the insurance industry. With lowcost websites i should be able to help increase my own my ownn crumb personal income and may be able to employ others in a parttime basis. Host without a commercial plug, what are you doing on facebook . Will cut thing are you doing . What kind of thing are you doing . Local history is an untapped industry. I am going to launch my business through being a tour guide for National Conferences are coming in, looking for people who can identify and highlight the african history right here in town. Mere is no cost to it for but i am using my own innovation and passion for history to cityight my new adopted and i am using the Online Market to help advertise. It is a winwin situation. Conferences and jacksonville is a very major city for that. How do you network with conferences coming to town and how do you know who to contact . Caller because of the passion and because of my work i have made contacts it is about networking. You have to be involved when there is a speaker or a conference or when there is a when someone does a book signing. You put your face out there, people get to know you. They see the work youre doing and see what youre passionate they know i am passionate about African American history. I put on a tour through my job. Visit jacksonville has become is alsoess someone who interested in propelling jacksonville through these conferences, they have called me through the last several months and asked him what i would be interested in. I decided to incorporate and get a license to do business in florida. It grew from the passion i had and the passion i showed. It wasnt overnight. It took about a year and a half to really get this idea in my head. It was through being out there and being interested in the history. Host do you think that what you are doing with your Side Business is going to ever replace your urban planning business . Caller i dont think it will replace, but i am looking toward my retirement years. I have to think about 10 years and the future. I definitely need something that is going to supplement whatever it is i may or may not get from retirement. Host thank you for being with us this morning. At the question, does Technology Create better jobs . Eventslooking at the here in washington, which cspan covered all day yesterday. The 50th anniversary of the march on washington and a huge expressed in the Washington Post this morning. One of the speakers was the republican from georgia who first marched in 1963 and spoke yesterday about the Voting Rights act. [video clip] 1963, hundreds of thousands and millions of our brothers and sisters could not register to vote. Ago i stood here 50 years said one man, one vote is the african cry. I also said that people tell us to wait and be patient. I say 50 years later, we cannot wait, we cannot be patient, we want jobs, and we want our freedom now. All of us. It doesnt matter if we are latino, asian, american, or native american. It doesnt matter if we are straight or gay. We are one people, one family, one house, we all live in the same house. I say to you, my brothers and up, we, we cannot give cannot give out, we cannot give in. Host representative john lewis from yesterday. Back to your comments and questions, does new Technology Create better jobs . In us go to jacqueline houston, texas on the independent line. Caller good morning. Technology itself does not actually hurt our country. I think it is the lack of education about technology that hurts our country. Our country is reflective on how we treat our poor. If you do not educate your poor of course everything is going to go down. Host thank you for your comments. On the democrats line in tampa, florida. Caller i do think Technology Create better jobs. Have aple who already job, with Technology Comes a theyre looking to downsize the manpower. It does destroy jobs. Host are you in a position that requires advanced technology . Caller i was in a position that required advanced technology. They continued to downsize that department. Now it might be to people when we had a team of eight people. Host are you working now . Caller no, i am not. I am unemployed. Host thank you for calling. We will talk about u. S. Foreign policy and egypt later. The headline this morning from the region, this is an Associated Press rick port and associated per this is an Associated Press report calls to oklahoma, calls, davis is on our fact two back to calls. Davis is on our republican line in oklahoma. Caller i worked as a systems analyst in the transitional. Between in the transitional period between the 1960s and 2000. The word job is becoming an anachronism. I urge them to plan a lifetime of contracting, as contractors. Groundswellogical we are living through now is ,ust the beginning of a time when the key to success is not the job you have but what you can do. Is illequipped to respond on the short term to these lightning quick changes in technology. We have a lot of thinking to do as a society about how to build a workforce that can be stable in this world of constant change. Host you mentioned this idea of being a contractor. Inherenta certain instability . If you look, in comparison, to somebody who is an actor who is essentially a contractor from , is there an instability you are worried about in that approach . Caller i tell my students they have to learn to be stable in a constantly changing world. I told them they should get nervous when things stop changing. Its at that point that they become they are beginning to become not so valuable to their next employer. A contractor has to think is an independent businessperson. They have to lay back a reserve, they have to prepare for their own retirement, they have to buy their own insurance. Those are some of the downsides. The upsides are that contractors make an unbelievably high salary when they are working. When they are working, if they have a good and marketable skill. It is their responsibility to maintain that skill. That gets into problems with his tradition of wealth and how the Education System is put together right now. It is 50 years behind the times. We have a lot of thinking. We need our philosophers and scholars to direct their attention at this there he significant problem. Host we appreciate the call. Economist on technology , were aat tweets cspanwj isalls back to callsm, jim n connecticut. Caller one example of how i feel technology wrecks jobs is the easy pads at tolls. The people who are collecting tolls were a middleclass union wage and now we have a speed through that allows for faster commute but those people lost their jobs. We do not know what happens to them. The advent of the electronic scanning check out and Grocery Stores lost a good entrylevel job for young people. I was working and middleclass corporations. I saw myself being outed by the introduction of a new technology. I am now presently in a skilled majoron, but one of the manufacturers has introduced a device that could potentially eliminate my skill. Whered you go from here . Where do you go from here . I am finding myself being pushed away by the introduction of technology. Going back to the toll , how dod the easy pass you balance the benefit for the consumer in this case, travelers . I dont think there is any perp any interest in retraining the people. The introduction of those devices is equally reducing labor and keeping revenue. I find it really hard to understand what we are doing with the vast majority of those bedleclass they may dont have the necessary skills for the next century. We have a population problem as well is a skill problem. Host we appreciate your call. Tongass returns in two weeks from their august recess. Heres the headline Congress Returns in two weeks from their august recess. Heres their headline ringing some more detail to the story ringing some more detail to the story bringing some more detail to the story host that is from the Washington Post this morning. Democratic line. Go ahead. Take for granted that the issue is the back of qualified labor in the United States. That is a diversion it. Tactic. And whether greed or not we allow companies to continually pay less for labor than other countries that ship products into us. If we ask any company, no matter how technical the job, to give you the qualifications, there will be Many Americans here who will call in that are qualified to back and that position. Do thepanies can not same thing to the individual as they came from as they can from india and south korea and so protect their balanced line. The balance is not between technology and labor. We have to take a look at talents and profits. You walk into walmart or home depot and they are downgrading the workforce only for profits not because there are not enough mollified people, even to take care of the machines to replace them. For lack of a better term, they go through and rape the American Public. Host thanks for your call. Dede talks about job training. Job used to do their own training. Now they expect employees to be job ready. Back to yesterdays march on washington. This is the headline of the Richmond Times dispatch. Some see drop in urgency. Martin luther king the third talk about his fathers dream and the realization. Here are some of he had to say. [video clip] four little his o children would not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. It is sadly, the tears of Trayvon Martins mother and father rebind is that far too frequently once skin remains a license to seek out a murder with no regard for the content of ones character. Stand your ground laws must be repealed. Federal antiprofiling legislation must be enacted. Comprehensive Immigration Reform must be adopted to and the arrests of our Brown Brothers and sisters and provide a path to citizenship to then just as was done for the millions who passed through ellis island yesterday. Host Martin Luther king the third yesterday at the 50th anniversary of the march on washington. President obama will speak on the actual anniversary date on wednesday. Look for coverage on cspan on that day. Back to the question. Does new Technology Create better jobs . Piece in the New York Times prompting this. Middleweight adjustment not to take one prominent example, paraprofessional jobs, radiology technician, here is pennsylvania on our republican line. Caller i think that a couple of callers back there made some good points. I know a number of different types of people. One of my friends has a dad that has a mechanical job in the middle class. It is really hard. We are best friends. Understanding of technology in different programs and computers. Computer sciences general that can help us. We understand how easy it is to start a business these days with but both our, parents do not understand that. For some people who are in the 40 or 50 year old range they have their own businesses and they do not understand how they could go obsolete just because of the new technology. In school i would find myself experiencing people being sho cked that you could do something with this kind of technology. Technology is created newer jobs. People are not understanding how easy it is to create a business. Some of these jobs are just not going to disappear in general. There is, somebody mentioned to the automatic tech out link. They still have to hire people to do something in the