George W. Bush is using the Social Security Administration ­ including Social Security associate commissioner Andrew Biggs - to push privatization of social security. Biggs was the Cato Institute's assistant director on the Project on Social Security Privatization. Social Security Employees, represented by the National Treasury Employees Union, resent the use of the Social Security Administration to push privatization propaganda. NTEU President Colleen Kelly says her members will join workers nationwide to oppose the undermining of social security. Kelly says defending social security will be a priority for Social Security Administration workers.

[Colleen Kelly]: ³We will be making this one of our legislative priorities and we will be working with all of those in the House and in the Senate to make sure that they too understand the issues, the impact, and what the facts are around this issue as well as the fiction.²

A social security actuarial projection says social security is solvent through 2042. The Congressional Budget Office says 2052. Henry Aaron, a social security analyst at the Brookings Institution says talk of social security crisis is ³nonsense². He says it¹s a dishonest attempt to stampede the public.