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Joe Biden Suggests Coal Miners Should Learn To Code

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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 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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  1. Joe is beginning to sound like obama and the insane things he would say about people. People he hoped would look up to him. He screwed up and screwed up our country and now Joe is starting to mimic his former boss. Who needs Joe? Not us.

  2. What is it about the Left that they insist on “pushing” people instead of “pulling” them? First, determine how much coal is still essential to provide heat and power to our country. Then, begin a government funded program open to all coal miners to teach them coding (or other skills…that pay better than coal mining) so that they can OF THEIR OWN VOLITION start a different and better job. Ultimately, if alternative sources aren’t developed quickly enough even the coal miners that remain will have to be paid more to dig the needed quantity of coal. But do you think the Left would EMPOWER voters? No. Never have, and never will. All they are interested in is keeping people on the government dole plantation, dependent on handouts.

  3. It’s become obvious why they were determined to get rid of oil, natural gas, and coal in America, along with all the good-paying jobs that went with it and all the supporting industries around it….now that we see all the congressional family members who were getting money from overseas energy companies… of course, that would be more important to them than American jobs.

    (And of course, the UN/other globalists’ plans had much to do with it, but this personal financial benefits thing adds another element to it.)

  4. A democrat trying to select which candidate to support is like a chef cooking a pot of rotten meat. It’s ALL of his own making, and too late to change the ingredients, so all that’s left is choosing which SCUM to skim off as it rises to the top!

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