At a recent town hall, an Alabama small business owner explained to his Republican Congressman Mike Rogers how the sequester is harming his business by hurting the pocketbooks of his customers, and explained how cutting government spending across the board isn’t what we need right now.

SMALL BUSINESS OWNER: My business is off twenty percent because the sequester. I’ve gone from making good money to losing money in one month because of the sequester. The House of Representatives has done more to hurt my business than anything by government by anybody, state, local, federal has ever done in 15 years. Every time ya’ll do something to cut funding, it hurts my customers. They have less money to spend. When they have less money to spend, they spend less with me, which means I have less money.

Watch MSNBC’s Al Sharpton’s coverage of the question: