Valentine's

President Obama used his speech on the budget today to sound his own note of public service recognition, saying:

I want to be clear: there are many, many people doing valuable work for our government across the country and around the world. It's important that we support these folks - folks who don't draw a big paycheck or earn a lot of praise but who do tough, thankless jobs on our behalf. This is not a criticism of them.

That said, he appears to be sticking to his proposal for a 2 percent civilian pay raise...