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。
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.