Because of its proximity to the nation’s capital, Virginia has a big federal workforce of 145,000 people. Many have taken the federal buyout and are looking for new jobs. The media is crying a river about the unfairness of it all.

So it’s good news that Governor Glenn Youngkin has launched a “Virginia Has Jobs” program, to help these displaced or early retiring federal workers find new employment opportunities.

But no good deed goes unpunished in politics.

Senate Democratic Leader Scott Surovell sneered that “Virginians want Governor Youngkin to stand up and fight for their jobs instead of taking a knee.”

But it was Biden who flippantly and ridiculously told coal miners he would replace their jobs with teaching them how to code.

There are plenty of private sector jobs that laid off federal employees can fill. But, sorry, they WILL have to show up for work instead of phoning it in.