US Government shutdown's Good Samaritans

Thousands of workers sent home , cancer patients denying new drugs, and marriages postponed . But the way some individuals have responded to the U.S. government has raised the spirits, said Tom Geoghegan .
Seeing Chris Cox pushing a lawnmower across the National Mall Washington , chainsaw dangling from it, one which warms the heart of many who heard about it . " If they shut down our monuments, we're still going to take the trash out , we're going to clean the windows , we're going to cut the grass , we're going to pull the weed , we're going to do the woodwork , '' he told Washington radio station .