Biden to coal miners "Learn to code."

[Backseat Driver]

88. Yeah, right, not even funny!

Sure, states can surely turn to government to train coal miners to code vintage software languages, but most every corp has moved on to their specific ready-to-lock and load proprietary systems for just about every industry application; the only networked clouds miners know are the ones over their heads while they were underground.

Sure, a few chose to be rooted in place in rural America or loved to read the college poetry and classics on their off-time, but beginner's classes in computer coding will hardly cut the mustard toward a useful career anytime soon - and then there's that temptation for generational ruin called more undischargeable student loan debt to enslave every dollar and every normal adult landmark choice like marriage, home purchase, and responsible rearing of children, from the older/younger ones as well?

And "I helped" says Biden regarding his advice for miners retraining. Sounds more like that old "fool me once..." stuff of the '90s post failure in the '80s.

DH used to do that - CODE; RPG/COBOL/review applications done in C++. I learned the language of medicine and how to read doc's handwriting and made sure he'd signed his orders. I learned to code for billing, hospital/ambulatory care, and research, but neither coding skill turned out much different than struggling with a shovel in a mine for low wages.

They actually explained how they thought DH was Asian at one interview, and had him screened by foreigners who spoke their own language to determine if he was a "good fit" at several others. He thankfully missed training his replacements and but was informed he could not be hired because he was not currently working! WTF?

He was hired specifically to burn the budgets of government contractors, and sat idle on the payroll without so much as a workstation until he quit in disgust and traveled on his day of hire by a T4 primary contractor at his own expense for a budget-burning VA training session out-of-state where even the instructors never showed up. Why? So headhunters and hiring managers could split a commission, perhaps???

Perhaps retraining would have made him a great low-income caregiver? He was an only child with a chronically terminally ill father who would never qualify for assistance, nor believed in Wall Street investments, after all? Does anyone really think that the Dept. of Labor or the State would care to investigate these types of claims that target? May we see the review tape? Oh wait, that's the high-cost lawyers' job to prove, except no "regular (non)working person" can afford that or healthcare, or housing, or food? We had a plan for repayments and our retirement; now, as I've noted, it's a terrifying Plan B that awaits no matter who THIS election provides as leaders.

Government moves and speaks too late and acts too slowly, Joe Biden. Ms. Warren has explained how it all went wrong and has real plans that can work.

Now let's talk about age discrimination likely to occur directly after elementary STEM programs where, the rest of the time, teachers who can't need schooling in academic teach-to-test "artificial" intelligence and become embroiled in conspiracies of silence over abuse and lack of support and supervision at homes and wherever else children and youth in America gather. But "Hey Joe." If it's you instead of this "Hey boomers" choice, I'll help you out, good buddy with a vote should I live so long. That's much more a real consideration than training in computer coding!