Would this be a good time to privatise Social Security?

In a word "NO" as news reaches us that retirement accounts have lost $2,000,000,000,000 over the past 5 quarters.

What's good for the goose is definitely not good for the gander

Or so say US government contractors who object to provisions in pending spending bills that would require outsourced functions be returned to the public sector under exactly the same financial rules that privatised them in the first place.