My experience with the federal government is that all the brainless federal jobs with absolute job security are being filled by contractors now. The only federal employees that still have those jobs are people who have been working in the same position for 20-25 years and are just making time until they hit retirement. They are, not surprisingly, the laziest bunch of SOBs I've ever had to deal with in my life.
2. Do you seriously pay your bills by regular mail? For God's sake, Jeff. Pay them online and save your poor father the gas money and the stamps to mail the checks.
It's a long-established trait of Bushie that he does things that generally only senior citizens do. (One wonders why the bills don't just go straight to his parents; it would save some time.)
Also, I'm really enjoying this new Bushism of "mom's sister" instead of "aunt". I can't believe nobody's picked up on it.