Sequester then budget cuts - There goes the community

When government support of safety nets get shredded, it means individuals and businesses in communities choose to either increase their voluntary contributions to assist organizations who address community ills, usually by inordinate percentages or mourn the loss of those services.  Politicians declare cuts balance budgets.  Truly, all it does is shift the funding and service burden to the smallest community groups and passionate individuals originally burdened by the concern.  The result is that fair minded and caring people accept the entire additional burden while the lucky, the disinterested, selfish and greedy revel in their net income increase, wonder at the despair, and avoid participating in solutions and paying their fair share to provide consistent community solutions.

Politicians who advocate the destruction of programs for the needy, aged and the sick are simply short sighted and lack the understanding to appreciate social services provided professionally or the efficiency of the tax revenue developed.  Destroying security nets for Americans in need is unpatriotic, destroys futures, and exacerbates economic cycles for communities that suffer during economic downturns.  Eliminating programs that contribute to the Quality of Life for communities impacts everyone.  Many national programs currently serving Americans are being shredded by sequester and become more vulnerable to budget cuts.  While the format of tax revenue exists to be the broadest based, least impactful, while the benefits received go where the needs are the greatest.  

If you are in the LGBT community of San Diego, the impacts on federally funded programs to the Center and other non-profits could be significant.  If you care about supporting current levels of service these organizations provide, expect to increase your charitable contributions significantly.  Cuts to programs for those in need ultimately increase many kinds of insurance premiums, inflict personal losses to individuals and families, and can increase other expenses.  When specific benefit costs are no longer spread broadly, the financial burden is left to a few determined to support programs as best they can.

Voice your concern to Congress that shredding programs for those in need hurts our community or determine to set aside one month of your paycheck to the appropriate non-profit of your choice and call it a year.  The choice is yours.  Do neither and the community services needed to address the most basic needs of many in our community will fail to be addressed.