Ultram can do is allow the markets to operate correctly and not to store them. But I think Cole still has a bleak future even with the market being free
They’ve got a long wait ahead of them.
Even if coal does come back why spend your free training on something you are already familiar with (with the assumption the training is at a basic level) instead of diversifying your skill set?
I have an unemployed renter. She could find work in a minute if she moved. But, the county she lives in has wonderful schools and is beautiful. She doesn’t want to move. She has family close by who can watch the kids.
That’s the choice. Move for work or stay put and unemployed. In my final years after being laid off, I was prepared to move anywhere. But the Obama economy and my (cough) advanced age prevented me from replacing the income I had been making. The only real opportunity I had would have put me in DC where the living cost would have eaten up my income. But as a younger man, I’d have jumped on it and simply kept looking for a better opportunity.
Mining is being automated. Ive read that we wont need 90% of the workers withun a generation. These coal miners should use those ten years to learn somethung new.
Industries build and decline naturally, but it was dead-wrong for Obama, who was President of the United States, to actively try to destroy an entire industry.
Once shut down I imagine it’s pretty hard to get a mine going again.