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Pete charged him $30 for the autograph.

 

Naw, probably still would've ended up like this:

 

I was able to be retrained to get out of a dying industry.

I was offered a job back in the industry, at higher pay than I was when I was ousted from the industry, and higher pay than the new industry, before I was able to get a job with the new industry.

If anything, I'm better prepared now for if and when I'm put out of the industry again because I already have the retraining for the other industry.

And it's funny how you talk about how retraining isn't a plan when you transferred your white-collar job skills to a mechanical field. You were able to adapt. Why wouldn't coal miners be able to as well?

 

Those punches looked like they came from Rubio's hands.

 

Maybe they will adapt. And, maybe the jobs will be in their geographic are, or they'll be able to move for them.

So, c'mon, give me an educated guess. What percentage of laid off coal miners will end up working in renewable energy jobs?

 

While I don't agree with Baron that coal miners are all going to be designing solar panels in five years, I thought it was right-wing orthodoxy (and, frankly, orthodoxy that I'm on board with) that economic progress wipes out some jobs and creates others. Otherwise, we should all be digging home foundations with a spoon.

 

Sure.

But she's not selling that. She's promoting the idea of killing off a perfectly good industry, and offering false promises to the workers in the industry that this will be good for them.

She's lying to them, and she knows she's lying to them.

 

I reject your premise.

 

How many former coal miners now work as coders? These stories are great PR, but the follow-up stories aren't written.

 

It's not a "perfectly good industry," as you put it.

Here’s why Central Appalachia’s coal industry is dying

 

If this president thing doesn't work out, she'd make a fine CEO at Gannett.