You can also find us on line. Send us tweet or join the conversation on facebook. You can also email us. Journal cspan. Org. Well, the front page of the Washington Post today, driving away hunger. Eli reports and photographs by Michael Williamson reports from tennessee and look at a hokal program funded by the government helping to feed kids. They point out that during the summer when children leave school theres a gap in the nutrition thats available to them because they dont have the access to some of those school food programs. Lets dig into the story here. You saw that front page picture. It says that this is about a bust a bus, the lunch express and the drivers name is going around to feed kids directly instead of having the children have to come to them, the drivers name was rick bible nd his 66mile trek marked the governments latest attempt to solve a rise in childhood hunger thats been worsenen for 77 years. For seven consecutive years. 10th Washington Post story talks about so
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 f
About that . Should we continue with the Affordable Care act . Should we adopt a single payer system . Obviously, doing nothing will not work. What would you recommend . The programs already existing for a long time, like medicare, for which the projections of spending are just growing and growing and we also of Social Security as well. But in the case of medicare, there is a bipartisan agreement that we need to control the growth. The president a couple of years ago said it should not grow much more than gdp. The House Republicans have also agreed. Theres a difference on how to do that. House republicans wanted to decentralize, as you know. And the president wanted to centralize it. It seems to me that is something we could come to agreement on. It is really not about current retirees. It is about future retirees. People know it has to be addressed. I would try to go after the medicare issue. And of course, the Affordable Care act is even more difficult now because it has become so pa
Jon but we begin on this friday morning with stunning new developments in the nsa spying scandal. New reports the Intelligence Agency has broken privacy rules or overstepped its Legal Authority thousands of times each year since 2008. Good morning to you, im jon scott. Im allison cam rot tax in for general that lee. Jon mice to have you here. We have a lot of news, because details come from nsa leaker Edward Snowden. He shared them with the Washington Post. We have infractions was unauthorized surveillance of u. S. Citizens. A lot of what happens in the agency, even the nsa is reflection of the culture they see from the top and you have have a president and administration that revels going beyond the box, if you will, that theyre limited to to by law and i think that seeped all the way down into the nsa. Jon Wendell Goler is live in Marthas Vineyard where president obama is on vacation. Any response from the administration, wendell . Reporter well, jon, the nsa says these are mistakes