But, on the other side of the Atlantic, Americans have no reason to feel smug. Summers could have used the same metaphor to criticize the United States, where the continued focus on the long-run funding dilemmas of social insurance is sucking all of the oxygen out of efforts to deal with America’s macroeconomic and unemployment crisis.
但在大西洋的另一边，美国人就找不到任何自命不凡的理由了。萨默斯的比方同样可以用来形容美国——美国人一直把焦点放在社保的长期筹资困境上，而对美国宏观经济和失业危机视而不见。