“Let me give you the honest truth,” an employee of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service told the Washington Examiner‘s Luke Rosiak nearly a year ago. “A lot of FMCS employees don’t do a hell of a lot, including myself. Personally, the reason that I’ve stayed is that I just don’t feel like working that hard, plus the location on K Street is great, plus we all have these oversized offices with windows, plus management doesn’t seem to care if we stay out at lunch a long time. Can you blame me?”

Indeed, we cannot blame him. Nor could any American making less than the $110,000 average salary of this obscure agency’s 230 employees.