Biden tells miners to 'learn to program' in order to find 'jobs of the future'
by John Gage
| December 30, 2019 05:21 PM
2020 Democratic front-runner Joe Biden said miners need to find "jobs of the future" when talking about transitioning the economy away from fossil fuels.
"Anybody who can go down 3,000 feet in a mine can sure as hell learn to program as well," Biden said Monday during a campaign event in New Hampshire, according to the Washington Post's Dave Weigel. "Anybody who can throw coal into a furnace can learn how to program, for god's sake!"
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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...
This sort of "just transition" stuff was murder on Clinton in 2016...
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But Biden returns to the same point: "Anybody who can throw coal into a furnace can learn how to program, for God's sake!"
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