Make America, America Again By Hank Silverberg “Don’t it always seem to go That you don’t know what you’ve got 'Till it’s gone. They paved paradise And put up a parking lot.” --Joni Mitchell America found out over the last month just what life would be like if that government everyone complains about would cease to function. Had the shutdown gone on much longer, millions of people would have been homeless and hungry. Not just government workers, but those who rely on government services or those who work for vendors which do business with the government. What? You say you don’t get anything from the government? Here’s a list of things we would have quickly been without if the government was totally shut down. Let’s start with our borders, since security there is what touched off this so-called crisis. (U.S. Coast Guard ) Border patrol agents, Coast Guardsmen and TSA agents were forced to work for no ...