Here's what Seahawk's starting blind side Offensive Tackle Russell Okung has to say about the American Dream

I'm not going to comment.  This is for you to ponder.

Seahawks Lineman Says American Dream Greatest Lie Ever Told

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Dan Leberfeld

by William Bigelow15 Jan 20164,089

Seattle Seahawks lineman Russell Okung, whose Christian family fled Nigeria, seethes with contempt for the American Dream.

Responding to an essay on economic inequality offered by Y Combinator co-founder Paul Graham, Okung, who founded a Seattle non-profit called GREATER, pontificated:

Some think working hard solves the problems of poverty and institutional oppression and the lack of social mobility. Some think that by sheer determination, one can overcome such issues. But economic inequality isn’t the symptom; it’s the virus that attacks. You, Graham, like the rest of America, have been deceived. You are a victim of the American Dream, the belief that anyone who works hard can move up economically regardless of his or her social circumstances. American cultural optimism is one of the greatest lies ever told.

Okung plays in the midst of a six-year, $48,500,000 contract with the Seattle Seahawks. The deal included a $1,680,000 signing bonus, $29,300,000 in guaranteed money, and an average annual salary of $8,083,333. Despite his salary, and activism highlighting the vile acts of Boko Haram that he discussed with Breitbart Sports a year ago, the offensive lineman rails against the American Dream.

“So many people will never experience their dreams because there are far too many barriers of entry they can’t do anything about,” Okung opines. “And that all goes back to that elitism — the elitism that’s manufacturing economic inequality.”

Of course, while he’s spouting an attack on the American Dream, Okung cites his heroes: “People like Steve Case and Barack Obama, who are actively working to expand capital and invest in untapped talent across America.”

Okung concludes, “I urge you, Graham, along with the rest of the community, to return to your first love. Build people up.”

A small sign of how much the Obama Regime has screwed up the Army.

Don't get it?

This is a beer bottle opener.  Provided by the Army.

That talks about "substance abuse."

Like alcohol.

In beer.

Sheesh.

Another example of why Julie Olson should never have been elected... to anything.

As I have been saying since Olson confirmed she was a CRC Scammer last Summer, there is absolutely no difference between her and the democrat she ran against.... Chuckie Green, C3G2 hater-administrator.

This comment on another post illustrates that she's absolutely unsuited to govern anybody.

I recently wrote to Councilor Julie Olson about her vote to repeal the 2% general fund levy reduction (Pointing out that she claimed she would be "Keeping a careful eye on fiscal responsibility." 

She responded that the Assessor, Treasurer, Sheriff, Auditor, as well as the "finance team" all testified against the 2% levy reduction. 

She goes on to say, her view of "fiscal responsibility is not to knowingly and willfully put the county finances in jeopardy" ... 

OF COURSE, these county officials would all be against ANY reduction in county revenues. That's the whole problem, government ALWAYS wants to spend (or squander) every nickel they get their hands on. That's what government does. Starving the beast is the only way taxpayers can get any efficiency out of Government. 

If we had some politicians with any common sense, they ought to be putting every county service "out for bid" to see if private contractors could do a better job at lower cost (the civil service could bid on the contracts as well.) Some cities in Arizona have operated on that basis, and deliver necessary services to their citizens at very attractive cost.

What a crock.

My response?

This is certainly a symptom of the disease... Olson, of course, doesn't represent the Assessor, Treasurer, Sheriff, Auditor or the "Finance Team."

Her JOB is to REPRESENT THE PEOPLE.... and NOT the government bureaucrats.

This response on her part shows she's absolutely unsuitable for elective, representational government.

That reasoning is, simply stated, disgraceful.

Olson, Boldt and Stewart represent the very worst that government has to offer.

No clue or concern over who they're SUPPOSED to work for... instead, an insatiable desire to serve the government monster is what drives her.

Her election has already cost the people of this county unnecessary millions.  And for that, there is no excuse, nor will there be any excuse for the additional millions in tax increases she is GOING to support... because the "Assessor, Treasurer, Sheriff, Auditor, as well as the 'finance team' all testified for them..." is all the excuse she's going to need.

Because, what the hell... who cares what the PEOPLE want?

(By the way: the Assessor and Auditor are both, allegedly, Republicans.

And I will never vote for either of them again.  MY "finance team" told me not to.)

So... is it going to be Trump?

Since it became clear that Trump was serious this go-round and he's taken off in the polls, I have been banging the drum that pounds the GOP.

I have been saying... repeatedly... that the only hope for the Establishment was to peel off their politically correct crap and begin the process of "smurfing" Trump by co-opting many of his positions... the positions that enunciate the anger and frustration of an increasingly restive base that is entirely sick of the Establishments inaction, political cowardice and political expedience, most recently illustrated by the horrific Ryan Budget and most recently endorsed by the horrific Senate concurrence, courtesy of the RINO-in-Chief, Mitch McConnell.

It hasn't happened.

But then, we knew it wouldn't.  Not really.

Cowardice is endemic in the GOP.  While the RINOs were running for the US Senate, we were expected to hold our collective noses and vote for them anyway.

We were repeatedly assured that once the GOP controlled Congress, why, things would start happening.

I doubted it at the time... and, of course, I was right.

Thirteen months of GOP Control has cost the taxpayers additional hundreds of billions of dollars in debt and increasing amounts of money wasted on Obamacare while our foreign policy has become the joke of the ages.

Because of GOP inaction, the NEW excuse of RINOs generally became, well, we can't do anything until the GOP takes the president's office.

I have no confidence that it will happen, because if ever there has been a group of incompetent clowns running an organization, it's the morons running the GOP.

This is, I believe, the GOP's last chance to win. 

Ever.

2012 proved beyond any doubt that the GOP couldn't even beat a clueless moron like Obama.  Thus, I have no confidence in their ability to defeat any of the simple idiots running on the left this time, either, as the democrats end the worst 8-year span of democrat governance in American history... even worse than the disaster that was Jimmy Carter, a feat I didn't believe to be possible.

Few times in politics has any political group had such a history of snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.

So now, knowing of the fury of a betrayed GOP base who listened to the RINOs urging them to hold their nose and vote these cowards in... all we have to show for it is the stench.

Which brings us back to Trump.

I believe he's going to be the nominee. And, I believe he's going to win.

This is not because I support or oppose the man.  But when you're in the business of signs... the signs point to that outcome... as I believed they would absent the one thing that could have derailed him politically: the strong assumption of his saleable positions.

For far too long, the GOP has operated out of fear.  Fear of being not liked.  Fear of name calling.  Fear of mud wrestling.

The result?

The morons running the show would rather win with a weakling that can't lead his way out of a bag of marshmallows than win with a guy who could actually make a difference... no matter what his name might be.

How many times have we heard about the GOP's internal efforts on this issue?  Not the effort to fight for conservative principles and values... oh, no.

But the fight to find a way to derail the candidates most likely to win... the candidates outside the establishment.

The GOP fears Trump because he's is absolutely uncontrollable.  He's got his own money.  And as a result, it's not a matter of "here's the money, strings attached."  Oh, no.

Instead, he whips out his own checkbook, from which he's spent practically nothing, and then proceeds to play the media like a violin.

 The GOP is fearful of "offending" anyone.  Well, I'm fearful that they DON'T.

I get it, believe me.  I know how much *I* am hated around here, because I violate the cardinal rule that *I* am not allowed to object to the things that anger me... and, instead, am required to just sit here and keep my mouth shut.  When "friends" violate their integrity and their campaign pledges, *I* am SUPPOSED to remain silent and just keep supporting them.

When my own brother-in-law becomes a leftist tool, easily manipulated into doing the bidding of the special interests who own him like the 13th Amendment doesn't exist?  When he votes like he and Steve Stuart were separated at birth?  Why, I have to keep my mouth shut.

Otherwise, people like Boldt and Boger and Rivers and Stuart start making phone calls.

And that's a risk I'll run.

Meanwhile, at all levels, the result is that the entire GOP lives in fear that SOMEONE will be offended by a position they take.  Someone will call them names.  Sen. Rivers, in fact, indicated that had she kept her promise to the voters of the 18th District and actually kept her word to oppose the gas tax and tab fee increases.... why.... why... she'd be nothing more than a "pansy."

Imagine that.

Keeping your word... telling the truth... makes you a "pansy?"  (Folks, that's the language SHE used.... not me.)

Well, I've been "offending" people for years as I call them out for what they're doing to us... and for what they promised NOT to do to us... only to forget all about their promises and pledges and soaring phrases when the time came.

That they are typically NOT called out is why, in fact, they do it: because they have convinced themselves that past inaction on the part of those betrayed means they can lie all they want about anything they want and do it for FREE... without FEAR of being held accountable.

I, for one, am sick of it.  Millions of us are sick of it.

And if you look at the polling, of the 11 major candidates remaining in the GOP primary campaign, the "outsiders" (Trump, Cruz, Carson and Fiorina) total 64.8% on the Real Clear Politics average.  Of that, Trump is at 34.8 nationally, +11 in today's CNN/ORC Poll in Iowa, and +20 in the latest New Hampshire poll.

For the most part, these numbers have been stable for quite some time as others bump up against him, only to fall.

Meanwhile, it's "next man up" as efforts... dramatically unsuccessful to date... continue to try to tear Trump down.

And they will likely continue to BE unsuccessful because Trump was first to tap into the seething anger of an abused-by-the-Establishment base that has had it up to here on taxes, on the deficti, on Obamacare, on illegal aliens, on a train wreck of a foreign policy and of a military torn to shreds by the multiple abysmal failures of Obama's social programs masquerading as force multipliers... while the rest of the world laughs at us generally, and the Russians and Chinese particularly.

I believe it will be Trump.  Of course, I stand by my observation that if there is a way to lose this thing, the GOP will find it.

So... who knows?  But something pretty major is going to have to happen for him to fall any time soon.

An oldie but a goodie!