Page 4 September 12, 2013 TORRANCE TRIBUNE One Man’s Opinion Another Man’s Opinion By Gerry Chong not employ any full-time employees thanks Training, Education Must be Providedto you.” BAM!Against the dying daylight, a single line of silent mourners slowly trudged Joining the theme, supermarket giant to Transition into Clean Energytoward the very small casket. The child Kroger confessed, “We have stopped spousal inside had been born only three years health insurance benefts for 11,200 Indiana By Cristian Vasquez our traditional fuel sources (fossil fuels). ago, but had died a mercifully premature employees and have yet to make a decision Opinions about clean energy sources vary Furthermore, it can be done without the abrupt death. It was a large baby at birth...2,700 affecting our 343,000 other workers.” BAM! depending on whom you ask and the arguments displacement of thousands of employees. pages…and exploded in girth by an additional With head bowed, the nation’s third for and against transitioning into using cleaner The transition to cleaner energy will not be 13,000 pages. Why, just last week, his father largest health insurer, Aetna, stood with energy sources are just as diverse. A major overnight. In the next fve years, through released another 75 pages of regulations. hammer and nail poised and said, “We area of concern has been the displacement the Clean Energy Job Creation Fund, we Death was attributed to many reasons, will not participate in your health insurance of workers upon developing cleaner energy will be closer to having the trained and but a gluttonous explosion was surely a exchanges in California, New York, Maryland, sources, which is a big problem. Fortunately qualifed workforce needed to provide such contributing cause. Ohio, Georgia and Connecticut. Go with in November of 2012, voters approved energy sources. The line of black-clad mourners was God.” BAM! Proposition 39, which is expected to generate It is hard to imagine a world with nothing bowed and silent, and each carried a single Following its insurance brother, Anthem $550 million in corporate taxes to be fund but electric cars or nothing but hybrids, but it nail and a large hammer as he approached Blue Cross and United Healthcare placed the Clean Energy Job Creation Fund. makes sense that more and more people use the casket. The frst was American small their nails against the little space remaining Beginning this fscal year, money in the such vehicles. The environmentally-conscious businessmen, who said, “You killed us, so and hammered home the fact that they have Clean Energy Job Creation Fund will be or people who drive extremely long distances we had to kill you.” BAM, the frst nail withdrawn from the health exchange market available. Of major signifcance is the fact would beneft from the development of such went into the coffn. in California. BAM, BAM! that this fund will provide for adequate technology--and making it readily available Next came the president of the AFL-CIO. Bringing up the end of the line were job training, which is at the core of our ability does not hurt anyone. When television “You weren’t well thought out,” he said. the New Orleans-style funeral celebrants to transition into cleaner energy sources. sets were introduced to households around BAM, exploded the second nail. —black-laced ladies and men in top hats, It is hard to deny that the performance America, radio stations didn’t disappear. The president of the Teamsters Union twirling black umbrellas and dancing capabilities of certain energy sources are Not even the popularity of satellite radio or came third and said, “You killed full-time to Cajun jazz. They are the 11,000 above and beyond the rest of our options. podcasts has made radio stations go away. So, jobs, the backbone of the middle class,” members of Congress and their staffs who However, when a cleaner and safer fuel why would the availability of clean energy as he hammered still another nail into exempted themselves from the deceased. option is viable, we should not shy away sources make all other energy sources go the coffn. The President, Congress and their from it because of what we are used to away? They won’t. A somber Delta Airlines stepped to the respective staffs enabled themselves to using. Just like this bill intends, we need to Muscle cars will still be available coffn and said, “We told your father that enjoy the privileged government healthcare invest in job creation and, most importantly, andNASCAR will continue to be a multi- you would cost us an additional $100 million system not available to the peasant public. training. As we begin to transition into cleaner million dollar sport, all while a new industry per year in employee healthcare costs, so Noblisse oblige. fuel sources, we need trained and qualifed dedicated to clean energy continues to grow we have brought still another nail.” BAM! The lid of the little coffn is now covered workers to provide this energy. Oil refneries and thrive side-by-side with the old. To resist Slowly, UPS stepped up and said, “Thanks in nails, providing some confdence that the invested in their workforce many years ago the development of new technologies will to you, we are dropping all spousal healthcare soul of the child, mothered by Hillary and and continue to do so today because the only hurt and slow down our ability to grow coverage for our employee families. fathered by Barack, has been sealed and will need was there. as a society. It is in our fnancial interest Congratulations.” BAM! not arise from the dead. But then again, like We are in a situation where we need to develop the ability to use clean energy A solemn Forever 21 then approached the The Omen, evils can arise again and again. to develop our clean energy sources and and the workforce that can maintain that casket with a black rose and said, “We will Be vigilant. BAM! · we can do so without walking away from option viable. · Looking for the Torrance Tribune? 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