“When I first read this story in the Washington Post about supposedly under-appreciated federal bureaucrats, I was tempted to focus on the sentence referring to ‘the sledgehammer of budget cuts scheduled to hit today.’ Instead I want to focus on the part of the story featuring self-pitying remarks of federal bureaucrats. Excuse me while I wipe away the tears and compose myself. There are so many stories of unbearable hardship. Perhaps we can create a civilian version of the Medal of Honor, given to the bureaucrat who suffers the most because of the ‘sledgehammer’ cuts and those mean people on ‘web sites.’”
