by Matt Agorist, The Free Thought Project:

Groups from all over the United States have stepped in to do the job of the government during the shutdown and their doing it better.

We are now in week four of this partial government shutdown and the United States isn’t turning into a Mad Max scenario. There are, however, many inconveniences literally piling up across the country with trash and snow being the two main culprits at various national parks. But, proving that society doesn’t need the state to step in and do everything for them, groups of private volunteers have moved in to fill the void.

While the mainstream media continues to encourage the nation to argue over a border wall, decent, hard working individuals have come together to do the job of the currently shutdown government, and they’re doing it well. Below are just three of the amazing examples of private citizens showing the obsolescence of the state.

The first of these groups hails from Philadelphia, PA. Since the government shutdown, the bureaucrats who normally collect paychecks to empty the trash cans at national parks aren’t showing up so trash cans started overflowing. But fret not, the good folks over at Ahmadiyya Muslim Youth Association stepped in to do their job—for free.

“We found out about parks overflowing with trash on Wednesday,” Salaam Bhatti, a spokesperson for the Ahmadiyya Muslim Youth Association, said. “Our organization’s president asked regional presidents of our group to see what parks were in their area that they could help clean up.”

Five local chapters organized more than 70 volunteers and cleaned up national parks across the country. Clean-up sites, according to the group’s Facebook page, have included the Everglades National Park in Florida, Joshua Tree National Park in California, the National Mall in Washington, D.C., and Cuyahoga Valley National Park in Ohio.

Government Shutdown? We’ll clean up. We met at Cuyahoga National Park today to help maintain our beautiful park. #WhatMuslimsDo #MuslimYouth #GovShutdown pic.twitter.com/mZD5WWe2Oi

— AMYA Cleveland (@MKA_Cleveland) 6 January 2019

Next up on the list of hard-charging individuals doing the government’s job better than them and for free, is a group out at Yellowstone National Park. Because the bureaucrats who get paid to collect the $35 fee to enter the park have abandoned their positions due to the shut down, people are simply free to come and go as they please.

Because there are no federal employees on duty, bathrooms and trash bins are getting overloaded and the snow on the road had become too much for visitors to handle. But fret not.

Jerry Johnson is a local business owner who rents snowmobiles and leads guided tours into Yellowstone. Because he has an incentive to keep the park clean in order to turn a profit by continuously renting snowmobiles and leading guided tours, Johnson’s company has moved in to do the job of the bureaucrats.

Johnson said he started getting calls from people who had reserved trips to Yellowstone and they were worried they might not be able to visit due to the shut down.

“I mean it’s not cheap,” Johnson said, “They had to plan and budget for this, and to all of a sudden get the carpet ripped out from underneath them, I think is not fair.”

So, Johnson kept them happy and began clearing the snow from the roads, emptying trash bins, and cleaning bathrooms. But that’s not all. Johnson’s company is also grooming the trails on which the snowmobiles drive to keep them safe.

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