The color green:

Thursday-March 17, 2011

The color green:

On this date, in 1762, the First St. Patrick’s Day Parade was held in the streets of New York City.

Little is known of Patrick's early life, though it is known that he was born in Roman Britain in the 4th century, into a wealthy Romano-British family. His father and grandfather were deacons in the Church. At the age of sixteen, he was kidnapped by Irish raiders and taken captive to Ireland, as a slave. It is believed he was held somewhere on the west coast of Ireland, possibly Mayo, but the exact location is unknown. According to his Confession, he was told by God in a dream to flee from captivity to the coast, where he would board a ship and return to Britain. Upon returning, he quickly joined the Church in Auxerre in Gaul and studied to be a priest.

In 432, he again said that he was called back to Ireland, though as a bishop, to Christianize the Irish from their native polytheism. Irish folklore tells that, one of his teaching methods included using the shamrock to explain the Christian doctrine of the Trinity to the Irish people. After nearly thirty years of evangelism, he died on 17 March 461, and according to tradition, was buried at Down Patrick. Although there were other more successful missions to Ireland from Rome, Patrick endured as the principal champion of Irish Christianity and is held in esteem in the Irish Church.

This is day of celebration for many. It is day to wear green and drink green beer. It is a day that the Chicago River turns green.

Well, like many FORUMS I write, here comes the political part. As we wear our green ties, green shirts, green shoes and green pants, we must stop to consider what the color green has come to symbolize.

The color green symbolizes the environmental movement. The color green symbolizes electric cars and wind mills. The color green symbolizes a fuel called ethanol that takes vast amounts of energy to produce. The energy it takes to produce does not equal the perceived benefit. Ethanol takes vast amounts of corn out of the food supply, because that is the basis of the fuel. When the corn is distilled, water is added to the mixture of gasoline, which is now found to corrode engines. When engines are serviced in this way more energy is consumed in the repair process. The color green has become the symbol of a religion to the environmentalists that lobby to prohibit domestic drilling for our readily available oil reserves. The list goes on.

The color green also represents the destruction of an American born Industry. The incandescent light bulb is now being forced out of production and replaced by a mercury filled light bulb all in the name of the environment. American jobs have been lost to China where these new light bulbs are being made. If these new type of light bulbs are not disposed of properly or if they accidently break a required process of environmental clean up is needed.

The color green has become a color of the liberal left who will stop at nothing in order to control what you purchase, what you eat, what you drive and now how you light your home. The color green has cost the tax payer billions of wasted dollars on wasted programs that have made some liberal’s very wealthy at the expense of your liberty and freedom to make individual choices. The color green has limited the free enterprise system and limited entrepreneurship. The color green has limited the principles of the free market.

The color green can be used to describe a young president, who is green himself. Our president is out of his league and it shows. Our president is not leading, he is following. While turmoil in the mid east is occurring, he is waiting on the U.N. to invoke sanctions. This is something that green liberals do when they don’t have an idea of what is happening.

In 2009, the price for a gallon of gas was $1.83. Today, for the same gallon of gas you will pay $3.55, up 90%. The economy is struggling along with a job less recovery. Housing starts are at a low and it does not look like they will improve any time soon. Our energy policy is being driven by a guy that rides his bike to work. This is all due to a president who is green in experience.

Like any other urban politician that is put into a place of authority, his lack of experience is reflected in his style of governing. His lack of experience is now costing this country its stature in the world. Our currency the -green back- might be replaced as the world’s monetary standard. Our country is not feared and not respected. Our president would rather make basketball picks than lead.

Today’s FORUM is not one of my best - but then again, I am still a little green myself, because I am not used to making so many criticisms of a green president.

Gregory C. Dildilian
Founder and Executive Director
Pinecone Conservatives

A footnote: It used to be that many of the world’s citizens were green with envy, because we are Americans. Our Green president has now made the U.S. into a country that is now becoming no different from many others.