Billionaires Save Head Start During Shutdown  John and Laura
Arnold have set an example that our elected leaders should
follow.  John and Laura Arnold (Laura and John Arnold
Foundation)  (The Root) -- There has been very little news worth
celebrating during the current government shutdown, making it
hard to decide which news is more depressing: that our leaders
are collecting paychecks while hundreds of thousands of federal
workers, including Secret Service agents and Capitol police, go
without theirs; that politicians refuse to put the needs of the
American people and the health of the U.S. economy ahead of
their own egos; that they have made us a global laughingstock;
or that they're behaving like children -- well-compensated
children.  These sad facts are the reason that news of one
family's plan to fund Head Start is so refreshing. John and
Laura Arnold are bona fide members of America's so-called 1
percent. John became a billionaire through his work with hedge
funds. He and his wife have previously made