Sequester problems but only for those who matter.

When you type sequester into google for news you will probably come up with a result like the one below.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/22/faa-flight-delays_n_3134411.html 

Although there is a great deal to be said about how the FAA cuts will and are effecting air travel I believe there are far greater consequences to the sequester issue then longer lines at an airport.

Lets start with the voiceless people who are being affected by the sequestration. 70,000 kids in head start programs accross the nation will be cut, if you are unfamiliar with head start it allows  kids who cannot afford things like pre school to have the resources (education and cognitive skills) necessary to begin  kindergarten. This funding also provides 14,000 teachers with pay. So why aren't our elected official raising flags about this diminished educational program, why isn't the speaker of the house starting hash-tags about our youth who are losing out on a valuable asset that can brighten their future? Because we are talking about people who are not voters, and unfortunately in our degraded republic people are not being viewed as constituents whose issues are equally weighed. People are being looked at as political pawns and measured by how much voting power a group has or does not have. As person who has been first hand witness to educational cuts it is often only in rhetoric that our elected official hold us in esteem. I am a product of the California higher education system, a shining jewel of how higher education should be: affordable and available to all those directly in need of it. I only mention this because I have witnessed this system be cut several times during a shrinking California budget only to be made up by the students in tuition, unfortunately there are no scholarships for pre-schoolers, the head start funds are exactly that, and they cannot exactly afford to pay more tuition because these families are primarily poor and thus able to engage in the head start program, it is very unfair. In 2007 the head start program was authorized to also deal with homeless children, yes thats right we have homeless children here in America and their only way out of that situation is education. Obviously education is very near and dear to me because I believe the fastest way out of poverty is to be educated and have resources available to the poorest and most vulnerable because their options are already so limited.
The second group that I have found so absolutely voiceless are those in need of housing assistance, 140,000 of them by 2014. This group is related to the first being that most of the families that are able to access this resource earn less than 12,500 per year. Again these cuts also affect the same assistance to homeless people. But again there are no flags being raised there are no hash-tags being created there is nothing but silence and it seems that in a  country dedicated to equality it is unfair for Americans to stand idly by and let the FAA not be cut so that people who are more valued as voters don't have to stand in line while hundreds of thousands of people lose their housing and thousands of children lose their opportunity to learn.

If you are reading this I encourage you to share these ideas with the people you know, understand that the only we are going to change it is if we have regular people come together and bother our representatives. In Washington there are only two things that matter the amount of money one can get for the election cycle and the amount of voices that echo on the same issue and right now there aren't enough voices concerned about these ones.