Secret: Everyone in my Office is Overpaid!

My boy, Stephen Barr wrote about a debate held by a House subcommittee that asked the proverbial question: are federal employees over- or underpaid? Don't let me answer that question. I'd have to speak honestly. I've told my co-workers a couple times (okay...a few) that I felt we were overpaid. Of course, they recoiled in disgust and seething anger that I'd have the temerity to actually admit that we don't do enough for the money. But, it's true. Seriously, I can see why people are reluctant to leave the government. After you roll in sometime during your flex-time hours in the morning (6:30 - 9:30 am), you immediately bolt out the door for a leisurely breakfast. Then, you return and make or receive some personal calls from your friends that you've worked with the last 36 years. When you finish that, you take one of your 30-minute breaks, and somehow manage to blow off the rest of the morning by visiting your friends around the building (may be one of them you just spoke to on the phone) and looking at your favorite websites. The closest thing to "work" you do is checking your work e-mail account, which of course is full of silly forwarded e-mails from your friends, whom you just finished visiting. Then, you go to lunch (a little early, naturally) and take your time returning, though not too brazenly. Then, may be you'll pick at some work on your desk for good measure until you bolt out the door to go home. Nah, I'm not surrounded by top-performers. My agency is LAX to the MAX. My supervisors set no example, yet gripe about any task they have to do, as if they are being overworked.
So, no, even though I do not do most of the things mentioned above (the Internet is my vice admittedly), I know that I am not being as productive as I could be. But, I'll kindly take that step increase (I'm too hated to get an award). I don't want to speak for everyone. I KNOW that everyone in my office is full of baloney. And, I observe much of that same laziness throughout my agency. May be the other agencies are just awesome, full of awesomely hardworking people, so they might be underpaid. But, we sure ain't. Thanks, Uncle Sam.