TITLES OF NOBILITY ARE ILLEGAL: Windsor Mann: Stop grovelling to civil servants.

Government employees are suffering from low self-esteem and high self-regard. That was the unintended message of Public Service Recognition Week (May 3-9), which lasted six days longer than Memorial Day. This year’s theme, “Government Works,” was both true (the federal government employs more than two million civilians) and truly risible. It is one thing to have a job, quite another to get the job done.

It should come as no surprise that most of the people who celebrated Public Service Recognition Week were public “servants.” The most recognizable of them, President Obama, hailed government employees as “exceptional leaders” who operate in “a political climate that too often does not sufficiently value their work.” Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-Va.) praised “the heroic work” of federal employees, many of whom reside in his district, and encouraged members of the public to thank bureaucrats via email ().

I would like to thin their herd substantially, which might render the remaining government employees more admirable.