It's All Going According To "The Plan"

The only way to achieve greater income parity in this country is to shrink the economy, downsize it, and deflate it. Well, except for the Washington, DC bubble. That must remain untouched and intact as the new shining example on the Hill of the way things should be.

"An ebbing tide strands the yachts first" was the unspoken rally cry.

By the way, I saw it coming:

Consider a spherical, sealed glass container of gas. Further suppose that the gas inside is all the same -like helium in a balloon. Room temperature and stable. Everything equal inside...but it's not. The individual gas atoms in the container have unequal energies because there's a range--a statistical distribution--of energies present: Some atoms move more slowly than others, some more quickly, some much more quickly. Slow atoms may become fast atoms and vice versa through energy exchange. No single atom is "trapped" at low energy. 

How can we make things fair? How can we make it such that each individual (atom) has the same energy as its next nearest neighbor? We cannot. The only way to approach that state is to remove energy from the entire system. Cool the economy. Everything slows. Eventually, approaching zero Kelvin, all motion stops. Of course catastrophic things like condensation (downsizing from gas to liquid) and solidification (loss of liquidity) occur along the way. But the goal is achieved: every atom is finally the same (or nearly the same) energy-wise. Link