[jimtorr]

""Social Security officials said they were concerned for the safety of the agency's employees who might be injured if a perpetrator became violent.""

Oh, piffle. I've been in a number of SS offices arranging matters for my mother, and in every one of them SS employees were behind a high counter, with an armed federal protection agent just a few steps away.

[ninenot]

Most any excuse will do for these turkeys.

Just for the moment forgetting national security--what about identity theft?

The REALITY is that most of our Gummint employees do NOT work for the common good--they work only for themselves and their bureaucratic friends.

[muggs]

Oh, piffle. I've been in a number of SS offices arranging matters for my mother, and in every one of them SS employees were behind a high counter, with an armed federal protection agent just a few steps away.

Even if they didn't have armed guards there, everyone knows when you deal with the government there are usually long waits involved. Tell the person you need to take their documents to make copies, go in the back room, call the cops and wait for them to arrive. Sheesh, even the DMV in my town does that, I know, it's kind of amazing, but they do.