Those words spoken by President Trump very cogently describes the effects of countries who pursue the failed economic system of Socialism, in other words, “you can't polish horse manure” no matter how hard you try to put a good face on a system that has failed over and over again since our universe was formed. No matter where it has been tried, it has failed. Wherever the Marxist/Socialist economic system has been tried, it has turned into a disaster, look at the countries of Cuba, Venezuela, Nicaragua, most of the countries of Africa, Nazi Germany (National Socialists) and the former Soviet Union. All economic “basket cases” and oppressive societies.

Then, how can we explain the surge of interest in the United States on the part of a goodly portion of our electorate, including a sizable number of Millennial's, who nearly 60% of those polled, think Socialism is the preferred economic system over Capitalism. Could that be an indictment of our educational system that seems to be graduating “economic illiterates” who now want to change the economic system (Capitalism) that has made our country the most
prosperous in the world today?

The “Young Turks” of the Democrat Party (Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib, and that old curmudgeon Bernie Sanders) have been running off their mouths about why we need a “total transformation” of our economic system (isn't that what former President Barack Obama said when he first ran for president?). Will their appeals resonate with the electorate, or will common sense prevail? Only time will tell.

Many of us want “something for nothing” because we all like “free stuff”, but after a sober evaluation, most of us will stifle that urge and will reject that appeal to “greed”. But, some will be attracted to that appeal thinking that what is proposed by these “economic hucksters” is really “free”. The expression that there is no such thing as a “free lunch” certainly applies here. Someone has to pay for the “free stuff” that these “Apostles of Anarchy” are proposing in order to get your vote. The suckers are you and me, the taxpayers.

Socialists claim that in a Capitalist system it is the wealthy who control the masses, but in a Socialist system it is a limited elite (mostly un-elected) that controls the masses. It is the built-in incentive to reap the benefits of your labor that Capitalism provides is what has made wealthy people wealthy. Anyone who is willing to work hard, get educated and take risks, can become wealthy or a least maintain a middle-class lifestyle. Unfortunately, there will always be
some who will be poor, even in the best of systems, but the opportunity for success is always there for anyone who takes advantage of that that is offered to anyone in a free enterprise capitalist system.

As Sir Winston Churchill has stated, “The main vice of capitalism is the uneven distribution of prosperity. The main vice of socialism is even distribution of misery”. Most all attempts at trying to impose Socialism has resulted in a dictatorship run by power hungry elites, who in order to keep power, subjugate the masses.

So yes, Socialism promotes prosperity, but delivers poverty and President Trump is spot on in proclaiming that truth.

Conservative commentary by Chuck Lehmann

That phrase was recently used by ex-president Barack Obama during his campaign for president in September, 2008, supposedly in reference to the Republican vice-president candidate, Sarah Palin. That phrase generally means that you can dress something up, but it
doesn't change what it is. Well, after listening to the testimony of President Trump's ex-lawyer (and now an ex-lawyer of the bar) Michael Cohen before a congressional committee, that proverb seems to sum up the extent of his self-serving testimony in trying to mitigate is felony conviction and prison sentence. Yes, Mr. Cohen, you can put lipstick on a pig, but you are still a pig.

What a disgrace to witness the Democrats on that “kangaroo court” congressional committee as they “kiss up” to that convicted felon mainly because they want to use Michael Cohen as a foil to discredit the hated President Trump and possibly use his testimony for a future impeachment procedure. Just about a year ago, when Cohen was still employed by the president as his personal attorney, he was vilified by those very same members of that committee as a despicable person. Boy, how these chameleons change when they can get someone, like Cohen, to trash President Trump, especially in a forum like a congressional hearing.

What kind of a trusted lawyer was that now contrite Michael Cohen to his client Donald Trump? Imagine your lawyer recording your private conversations without your permission and then testifying against you after he had been found to be a fraud and a future felon, in order to try to save himself from a long prison sentence.

Whatever happened to the principle of the lawyer-client relationship being sacrosanct? What can you believe when that certain someone has been deceitful over and over again, even under oath. He now pleads that he is now contrite and that he is sorry for his actions. The only thing he's sorry about is that he was caught and that as an admitted fraud and now a felon, he is trying to mitigate his prison sentence by “throwing President Trump under the bus”. What kind of person is that who would work for someone for ten years, doing various jobs for a man who hired him to work for him with some sort of implied loyalty, and then doing a 180 degree turn and then calling him a liar, a fraud, a con man, and a racist when he got caught doing
illegal things in order to save his hide?

It was quite obvious that the Democrats planned this hearing right at the time that President Trump was overseas trying to bring peace to the troubled Korean peninsula and to Asia in general. Couldn't this “sham” hearing have been held after the president returned from his
summit meeting with Kim Jon Un of North Korea? This was orchestrated to minimize the positive response President Trump normally gets with his foreign negotiations with leaders around the world. Is this what the Democrats want to make America great again? Or, are they only interested in getting Donald Trump out of the oval office by hook or crook, the country be damned?

Again Mr. Cohen, you can put lipstick on a pig, but you are still a pig, and no matter how hard you try, you will remain one.

Conservative commentary by Chuck Lehmann

How can anybody, with a semblance of curiosity and skepticism, not challenge the scenario put forth by gay, black actor, Jussie Smollett, that he was viciously attacked on a Chicago street, inferring that it was a “hate crime attack”? Is it normal for someone at 2 AM in the darkness of the morning, in a black neighborhood with a sizable gay population, with a temperature with a wind-chill factor of -20 degrees, be picked out by two white masked guys wearing MAGA (Make America Great Again) hats, who then administered a beating and putting a noose around his neck, and claiming that this was MAGA country besides voicing gay slurs. It just doesn't pass the smell test.

But, his unfiltered version of that event were grabbed upon by a fawning media and “blood-thirsty” anti-Trump Democrats, as an indictment of President Donald Trump for supposedly creating the climate for this kind of violent hate behavior. With the above facts in mind, this rush to judgment was just another example of the forces of “impeach” Trump at all costs, who will believe anything or anyone that might justify their hatred of the president. The facts be damned. The anti-Trump media (90% of all Trump stories that appear in the main stream media are negative) wouldn't or couldn't control themselves as they wanted this “fake” news story to be true. The frenzy on the part of the liberal talk show “journalists” and the unhinged politicians, to promote this “hoax”, was a sight to behold. You'd think that from their sanctimonious comments, that Trump and his administration were promoting these violent racial acts against these protected minority groups (namely blacks and gays).

Was this bogus case just an aberration or have we had a spate or racial, homophobic, and sexual abuse hoaxes over the past few years? The answer is “YES”. Let's take a look at some of the most egregious hoaxes that have occurred recently. Remember the Duke Lacrosse Case, where a group of lacrosse players were accused of gang raping a black exotic dancer? After those boys were vilified in the press and by the school administration, the whole scenario was considered a hoax, and the boys reputations were left in tatters. Another case was an article that appeared in Rolling Stone magazine saying that a female student was viciously raped on the University of Virginia campus, but after further investigation it was judged that no such event occurred, it was all a hoax. And just recently, we had the Covington, Kentucky H.S. students who were accused of blatant racism when confronted by a native American protester on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. Because some of these students, who were attending a Right to Life demonstration and were waiting for a bus to go home, were donning MAGA hats, that was justification, by the media, that they must be white racists, and they showed a 30 second video clip to back up their contention attempting to prove racism on the part of the students, and a 16 year old student in particular. When a full video turned up showing no bias or racism on the part of the students, the biased media had to “eat crow” and admit their rush to judgment was “fake news”, they did it very reluctantly, if at all.

The latest hoax perpetuated by a deranged, anti-Trump leftist, gay, black actor, Jussie Smollett, is just another case case of the media jumping to conclusions before all the facts had came out. Not only was this a staged act (as described by the Chicago police), the “supposed victim” has now been charged with making a false police report, a 4th degree felony. He faces real time in prison. Amen.

This supposed spate of false claims of racial violence perpetrated by “whites” against blacks doesn't stand up to scrutiny. According to Heather MacDonald of the City Journal, between 2012 and 2015, blacks committed more than 85% of interracial violent confrontations between blacks and whites. So the narrative that we have an endemic racial problem of whites attacking blacks is not substantiated by the facts, and to blame the rhetoric or actions of President Trump, is preposterous. It seems the left will say or do anything in order to undermine President Trump and his administration. Again quoting Heather MacDonald, “anti-racism – preferably of a performance nature – is now the national religion of “white elites”. And, I might add, the black elites who wallow in the victimology of blacks by whites.

These false incitements of bogus racial violent acts (also gender, homophobic, and religious acts) must be confronted with the facts or our country will be irreparably divided over racial, sexual, and gender differences. We don't need anymore racially charged hoaxes or any other hoaxes.

Conservative commentary by Chuck Lehmann

Can you believe that 70 House of Representative Democrats and 12 U.S. Senate Democrats have signed onto the proposal put forth by Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, called the “New Green Deal”? Not only is this proposal economically unfeasible, but it is also physically impractical, in other words, it is the “New Green “Raw” Deal”.

Most economists, not beholden to environmental groups and leftist foundations, and just plain practical people, look upon this proposal as an attack upon our free enterprise economic system as it was handed down to us by our founding fathers. To implement the provisions of this nonsensical proposal, it would increase our debt by tens of trillions of dollars, and it would put many millions of workers out of a job. This would be giant job killer through and through.

This whole idea has the foot print of Karl Marx all over it. If it ever got implemented by some freak of nature or by some brain-washed Marxist/Socialist fools, the United States would no longer exist, and we would become another Venezuela, Cuba, Nicaragua, and most of the African countries etc., who have instituted a form of Marxism/Socialism into their economies. Is this what these so-called intelligent legislators want the U.S. to become?

To pinpoint where this inane (or insane) proposal evolved from, you can look no further than our education establishment in our high schools and colleges. Most of these educational institutions are stocked with teachers and professors who believe that Marxism/Socialism is the preferred economic system over Capitalism for the masses of people.

Since most of these educators have never held a private sector job outside of academia or had to meet a payroll, or make a business decision affecting others, they have filled those heads full of mush, that sit in their classrooms, with the idea that the government knows what's best for all of us and should be the be-all and end-all of all economic decisions. What a crock, and the group most infected with this crap are the Millennial's, who have believed the propaganda put out by those lefty educators. It is a crime that I have to say that, being an ex-teacher myself.

So when you hear some of these leftists promote the theory of man-made global warming (a/k/a climate change) and taxing the rich to excess, it reminds me of what Sir Winston Churchill once described about what Socialism is. He said, “Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery”. More prescient words were never spoken describing what the failed economic system of Socialism is all about, and this is what these “Pied Pipers of Nonsense” are trying to shove down our throats.

So yes, the Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez proposal should be called, the “New Green “Raw” Deal”, for that is what it is pure and simple.
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Conservative commentary by Chuck Lehmann

Alexandria Ocasio Cortez (a/k/a AOC) and her Democrat flunky's, are the gifts to the Republicans that keeps on giving.

To show the naivete of those that embrace the “New Green Deal”, and that they are living on another universe, just look at what they are proposing. How are you going to eliminate all fossil fuels and still have a livable society and still be able to survive? This wacky proposal would eliminate air travel, make every building in the nation energy efficient (using renewable fuel), and even reduce bovine (cattle) flatulence (I kid you not, cow farts). In addition, the proposal includes a provision to give a government “handout” to those unwilling to work.

Unfortunately, this out-of-this-world proposal has a gaggle of ignorant adherents – mostly by the brain-washed Millennial's who have had their brains infused with the socialist nonsense by their leftist teachers and professors. The educational discipline of real “Economics” seems
to be lacking in the halls of academia.

This socialist mindset seems to have a grip on people in the Democrat Party. A recent poll of Democrats showed that 59% of Democrats thought that Socialism is the preferred economic system over Capitalism. I guess they haven't heard of Venezuela, Cuba, Nicaragua, most African countries, and the former Soviet Union. The proposals that are elucidated by Bernie Sanders/AOC are right out of the Karl Marx and Saul Alinsky (author of the book “Rules for
Radicals) playbooks.

In addition, according to the proposals regarding the banning of fossil fuels by the year 2030, the plan calls for the phasing out of all nuclear power plants, which even environmentalists have said would increase reliance of fossil fuels.

Also included in the far-out plan, on the social side, AOC's plan calls for guaranteeing jobs “with a family sustaining wage and retirement security”. This includes economic aid for those “unwilling” to work, which might also include illegal aliens.

Along with Representative Aleaxandria Ocasio-Cortez, and her co-sponsor, Representative Ed Markey (D-MA), are some of the announced Democrat candidates for president including Senator Corey Booker (D-NJ), Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT), Senator Kristen Gillibrand (D-NY), ex-Representative Beto O'Rourke (D-TX) and Senator Jay Inslee (D-WA).

The claim by AOC that our country will no longer exist if her foolish plan is not enacted by the year 2030, is too absurd to even take seriously, but these environmental fanatics don't seem to care as their “Holy grail” is the flawed theory of man-made climate change.

So, as a conservative, I hope that these extreme climate dupes will continue on their crusade. It will assure the re-election of President Trump. They will be the gift that keeps on giving.

Conservative commentary by Chuck Lehmann