Joe Biden Urges Coal Miners to ‘Learn’ to Code: Anybody ‘Can Learn How to Program, for God’s Sake!’

agreed

 

He shouldn't be allowed within 500 yards of a school.

 

Natural gas is cheaper than coal. It is also cleaner than coal.

 

We're in luck then. Biden is our largest producer of natural gas. At either end.

 

Taxes on coal, subsidies on renewable energy, strict regulation on coal and overlooking the impact of renewable energy has placed an artificial burden on coal other forms of energy.

It's politics not economics.

In billions, direct federal subsidy.

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Energy subsidies from the federal government (in billions of 2018 U.S. dollars). The “other” category represents technology-agnostic energy subsidies, like transmission and conservation efforts which aren’t tied to specific fuels. Source: EIA

https://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2019/09/23/energy-subsidies-renewables-fossil-

 

It too is a hydrocarbon, it's next in line to tax, regulate and, through irrational subsidy to its competitors, run out of the market.

 

The irony? He's the best that the Dem Party has got. Hahahahahaha! They are so screwed as a Party for 2020.

 

“No one in this world, so far as I know — and I have searched the records for years, and employed agents to help me — has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby.” Mencken

 

Desire is the big one. As someone who is used to physical labor, I would rather go feral in the mountains as a hunter/gatherer than be inside under the lights coding all day.

 

Yep and that works until one tries to fool all of the people all of the time. I think what is happening is that the political Left failed to understand that the best of political propaganda has got to have elements of truth embedded in it and that its delivery cannot be entrusted to intellectually clumsy people like the current crop of Dem Party leaders.

 

Gabbard is actually the best they have, but luckily they're not aware of it.

 

The Dems always ram the heads of their best and brightest into brick walls. They always go for image over meaningful substance and so the Gabbards of the Party get shafted.

 

Man, you are on fire tonight.

 

That, and it's probably inherent within most to cross the street when we see a ranting lunatic bouncing down the sidewalk towards us.

 

You are absolutely correct. I have been in the IT field for 40 years & I am hanging on treading water waiting for retirement.

Outsourcing to India has severely crippled the programmers job market in America.

Cyber Security & Artificial Intelligence is the most in demand IT jobs in America these days.

It would have made more sense for Biden to tell them to make VCR’s for Blockbuster video.

 

He's not very good, but then, if he gets to the general, there will be no competition in intelligence.

 

You're absolutely correct; I just don't know how you knew that. You've had the standard training to run the basic computer functions at Avengers Mansion but that's all - did Tony Stark get you up to speed on this?

 

Or one more million Americans left dissatisfied by a Washington who refuse to serve the Republic.

 

Natural gas is cheaper than coal because the Democrats made coal cost more.

And what the heck is crazy joe saying now, we must eliminate jobs because our unemployment is too low?

 

This sounds like the disasterous plan to encourage all those unemployed workers during the Recession to take out students loans and "rehone" their skills.

Yeah, how did that turn out for many of them who believed that?

I can tell you one thing, software coding is definitely not a job for just any person. A lot of people would have absolutely no talent at it.

 

Not according to uncle Joe and Hillary they think you can turn a coal miner into a Beverly hill Billy..

 

I agree that maybe coal miners need to retrain, but the question is for what?

What jobs are there out there that most of them could realistically train for?
Because I know a lot of jobs people say are out there are not, in reality, so good. People say "You should do this" but they don't know, it's not their lives they're having to take huge risks with. Many of these jobs are very low paying, considering the amount of time and investment it takes to train and become qualified for. That's the whole reason there are not enough people to do them.

Other times they are not the type of jobs former coal miner men are typically going to be well-suited for, or at least one could imagine they generally would not be.

 

I heard Biden needs coders at joe30330!

Heck - he still needs help getting his VCR to stop flashing 12:00!

 

Why the heck do they retrain for?

1) ancient windmill technology is ridiculous

2) solar panel technology is preposterous

3) we have enough coal under America to last us 400 years

 

The problem with coding jobs is almost all of the openly available ones are in very high cost of living areas, like the Bay Area, New York, or Seattle. These coal miners probably couldn't afford to get up and move there, and even if they did they'd probably have to leave their families behind due to the ridiculous costs of housing. In the Bay Area, for example, you have coders earning $70,000 who have to rent a small room in a boarding house because that's all they can afford. Sometimes they have to share that room with another roommate to cut costs.
It would be even harder for someone like a former coal miner just starting off in this career field, already in middle-age, probably not the most talented at their job.