Green-Eyed Ladies

The Democrats have always been a party comprised of loose coalitions appeased by government programs, and their National Candidates have exhibited such by presenting liberal ideas as priorities far ahead of their time. This is because Democrats lose on identifiable issues: abortion, affirmative action, national security. They then feel they have to crack into certain demographics.

Some attempts are laughable (universal health care as a "moral issue" to reverse trends amongst churchgoers). Others are simple pandering (universal health care and increased college student aid to those who have debt issues). Trial Lawyers donations certainly aid in Democrat efforts to expand lawsuit rights. Unions most certainly affect manufacturing and trade policies, despite becoming an ever shrinking portion of the workforce.

Which brings us to the latest common campaign pledge amongst Democrats: Green-Collar Workers. Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, and most recently Jim Schellinger has touted green-collar jobs as the solution to declining manufacturing jobs across America. An after Hollywood's 2006-07 global warming guilt trip, promoting The Day After Tomorrow and Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth, being green is as popular and fashionable as ever.

Green-Collar Workers design eco-friendly buildings and technology,and other build those buildings and install those technologies. And the Green-Collar Movement is classic Democrat politics:

• Since these products don;t sell on their own, Green-Collar technologies are stimulated through government regulation, either requiring their installation or regulating outputs and thus mandating their usage for compliance.
• As a result, construction workers, plumbers, electricians, and other trades are needed to install the technologies. Coincidently, these trades are also classically Unionized.
• In order to develop these technologies, government must increase study grants to liberal Higher Educational institutions, many in the form of earmarks.
• And where action has not moved fast enough, the Democrats have allies in the environmentalist movement to aid in their grassroots lobbying efforts.

"Green-Collar" has become the new Democrat campaign buzz-word and pledge, which means we conservatives must be weary of it. Watch out!