Sitting on the sidelines has always been difficult for me. I consider myself a blade of grass in the great “Grassroots” of America. I’ve lived my life having to make decisions based on common sense. Those decisions impacted me and my family directly. Rarely do elected officials have to worry about their decisions affecting them in any meaningful way. Unless it’s a couple of weeks out from an election, they can spin their votes/decisions to look and feel the way they want. And we (the grassroots citizens) are stuck with, and worse, have to live with, the ramifications of another idiotic, bureaucratic, government-growing piece of legislation – and the feeling of helplessness that comes with the territory.
Grassroots Rant is a place where we can vent all we want about what the government bureaucrats are up to. It’s a place where we can unite in our frustration, find out what others are feeling, rant about it, and then do something about it. It’s my dream that the result of these combined rants will feed movements like the Tea Party election we saw last November – when we replaced a lot of ideologues with a few regular people. That’s how the Founders envisioned our government. Not some bureaucratic institution, run by career politicians who don’t know the first thing about real life or real business.
This is your invitation to take part in something bigger than yourself – a grassroots movement.