So privatization would not protect retirees against the Social Security system’s insolvency; it would merely add enormously to today’s fiscal deficit, because partial privatization entails diverting money to private funds that would have been used to close the gap between government expenditures and revenue.
因此，私有化并不能保护退休者们不受社会保障体系功能恶化的影响，它只会为如今的财政赤字再添一笔巨大的负担，因为一部分私有化牵涉到资金到私人基金的转移，而这笔资金正是原本用以填平政府开销和国家收入之间的鸿沟的。