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News is the Social Security Administration is creating a "tactical plan" to market the idea that it faces "dire financial problems requiring immediate action".

Social Security officials say the agency is carrying out its mission to educate the public, including more than 47 million beneficiaries, and to support President Bush's agenda.

Their mission is to support Bush's agenda? Gee, thanks. Whatever happened to the days of faceless bureacrats who cared for nothing but doing their jobs either badly or well?

Actually, agency employees are complaining that they're being used to fight an ideological battle, and with trust fund monies at that. The "planning" is being conducted by Andrew Biggs, associate commissioner of Social Security for retirement policy and former Cato Institute analyst.