Former Vice President Joe Biden suggested Monday that displaced coal miners should learn to code.
“Anybody who can go down 3,000 feet in a mine can sure as hell learn to program as well,” Biden said at a New Hampshire event Monday.
He added later: “Anybody who can throw coal into a furnace can learn how to program, for God’s sake!”
Biden’s adversarial posture toward the coal industry bears similarities to that of 2016 Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton, who said her administration would “put a lot of coal miners and coal companies out of business.”
Biden riffing on how Obama put him in charge of judging the “jobs of the future” suggests re-training miners as coders.
“Anybody who can go down 3000 feet in a mine can sure as hell learn to program as well.”
This sort of “just transition” stuff was murder on Clinton in 2016…
— Dave Weigel (@daveweigel) December 30, 2019
Biden said during the Dec. 19 Democratic presidential debate he would be willing to sacrifice hundreds of thousands of blue-collar jobs in the pursuit of climate goals.
The former vice president similarly said during the July 31 Democratic debate that there would be no place for fossil fuels — including coal — under his administration.
He also said in September that the country needs “to shut down” all coal-powered plants.
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In a few months, he will be out of a job and should himself learn to code. The coal miners, on the other hand, will be keeping their jobs and have no reason to learn anything else.
No, his family corruption has given him a very nice cushion. Unlike his proposed miner victims, he doesn’t need to worry.
Hey Biden you blabbering nit-wit do you want to retrain all coal miners to be office workers Woo Hoo Biden you are a total idiot just like most all liberal Democrats are
” Learn the Code !”, says an idiot who thinks that the website has a NUMBER as a phone does.
Well, they actually do. Fully qualified domain names (FQDN) are a human-readable abstraction for the underlying IP address, which is an abstraction for the underlying media access control (MAC) address.
If learning to code (effectively) was easy, anyone could do it and it wouldn’t pay shit. Since that is not true and good coders are well compensated, Joe is wrong, again.
Joe knows diddly.
Back during the “Spotted Owl” dust-up in Oregon I was a volunteer Camp Host for the USFS. Talked to one young family. The chap was put out of work when 6 of the 7 sawmills in Roseburg closed down. The government, “We’ll send you to school to learn to program.” “Forget that ‘bleeping blap'” He admitted that he was in the mountains to poach a deer to put some food on the table for his family. I remembered to tell my boss about the illegal hunting – about three weeks later…..