Money? What a laugh. They might pay $50 for a hammer, and our legislators spend a couple of months a year in their offices for big bucks and a fat retirement, but they don't pay well if you're in the rank-and-file. Hubby works at the General Services Admin here in KC - about $15,000 less than what he was making in the private sector. And the benefits (health ins, 401K) aren't all that great. The only thing they have going for them that the rest of us don't have is job security. From what hubby says, it's hard to fire even if you have good reason. Yeah, I wish there was money there.....