Non-Profits Helps Everyone

            Contine to Help the Citizens of Our Nation

After reading Sandra Weatherly’s blog posting,"Congress Out of Touch with America Volunteer Organizations", I can see that she is very passionate about non-profit organizations and how the federal budget can affect them.  I know that there are non-profit organizations out there that rely heavily on the federal government for financial assistance.  I am all for the federal government allocating money to help out non-profit organizations.  However in these economic hard times, unfortunately there are going to be programs and organizations that will experience budget cuts.

In a utopian society, there would be enough money for all the programs and non-profit organizations to continue the important work that they do.  Unfortunately, we do not live in a utopian society and there is simply not enough money to support every program and organization.  The federal government no doubt has a very difficult job in trying to come up with a federal budget that everyone can agree on.  Once the budget has been approved and passed, then there will be people that will be upset at the cutbacks.  The truth of the matter is that Republicans and Democrats are really never going to agree on anything.  Each party has their own agenda and ideas about how to accomplish these agendas.  Instead what happens is that each party has to settle on giving and taking.

When this giving and taking occurs, the citizens of the United States are the ones that are affected the most.  Many citizens from all socioeconomical ways of life are the ones that suffer.  Sandra is correct that these programs and organizations need fulltime staff to take care of the people that they serve.   Many people, especially the federal government, do not realize just how important these programs and non-profit organizations are important to the ones they serve.

It would be wonderful if all those making decisions see both sides of the coin and try to work it out so that everyone can continue to benefit from the work of these programs and non-fit organizations.  It seems that the programs and organizations that rely on government assistance are the ones that are most effective in helping out those it serves.  One can only hope that the trend that Sandra mentioned can continue and that Republicans and Democrats can start working together rather than against each other.