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As a DoD civil servant (a double-dipper for all you ex-military guys out there), I am very happy to be getting a 3.1 percent pay raise. I have my job and I do it well, and I'm proud of what I do. I also don't belong to the union. In fact, my section's union rep won't even come into my office because of my large framed autographed picture of Ronald Reagan on the wall.

Now if that only worked to keep the other cockroaches (the six-legged kind) out as well.

Kudos to you! I wonder how your DOD peers respond when yet another Republican President's highly relevant remarks are invoked:

http://www.spaceprojects.com/Eisenhower

Linda Chavez says she estimates "that about a third of the federal employees I worked with were hard-working, another third were competent but lacked initiative, and fully one third were unable or unwilling to do their jobs."
As a civil servant, I estimate that about a third of the government contractors I work with are hard-working, another third are competent but lack initiative, and fully one third are unable or unwilling to do their jobs. My point is that it doesn't matter who does the work (civil servants or federal employees), government work is inherently wasteful because Congress' main desire is to divert tax revenue to their districts to get elected. Until someone comes up with a way to stop that, it's pretty much hopeless to do anything about it.