Today, my dream for my two sons is the same dream my mother had for me. I, too, want a happy and secure future for them. Yet, the content of the times is different. This is not the time of industrialization, where jobs were abundant. This is the time of downsizing, closed factories, abandoned steel mills.
Workers have in fact become an endangered species.
The technological revolution that creates a never-ending amount of goods and services, is also eliminating jobs. And without a job, a worker has no future but the streets. On the other hand, we're also witnesses to the marvels of this technology. We can see the potential of using it to end hunger forever, to end homelessness and to provide an opportunity for all to have a cultured life. The attitudes and beliefs of the American people have to change.