You walk into Obama’s Produce Store and you are met with a paradigm shift.

In ObamaMart no-one is allowed to use their individual determinations of value to afford their selections.

Prior to today you would browse the selections of fruits and vegetables picking them up, feeling them, looking closely and using all of your senses to determine what you would select.
You need some tomatoes for tonight’s salad, and you also need a few for making the sandwiches over the next three days.    Consequently you select two ripe tomatoes for today and two less ripe to use in the upcoming week.  They will ripen on your kitchen counter and present a differing value tomorrow and the next day.
Despite their equality in presentation, perhaps not all tomatoes are created equal; or at the very least today they do not present themselves of equal value to you.   There are other determinants, hence you evaluate each independently based on your need.
You selected bananas, apples, pears, peaches, plums and stone fruit in much the same way.

Prior to today when you approached the bagged salads you looked at the expiration or freshness date to determine your own quality control.   Closer expiration dates were of less value because you understood their freshness quality to be slightly less than the bags with longer expiration dates.
When you looked at the Onions and Potatoes your evaluations were less cautious.  The characteristics of a good potato or a good onion were essentially the same – there was less concern for selecting a poor quality because they are sturdy and less subject to degradation, they are less perishable.
Prior to today you are less discriminatory along the row crops, and more discriminatory amid the stone fruits, melons and berries.
Each article of like-minded produce was essentially created equal, but each does not hold the same value to you.   The value changes depending on your own level of use, efficiency, time and perceptions of quality.   While they were created equal, the value in outcome, the purchase, was dependent on your own evaluation.
That was before today.
Today you must shop at ObamaMart.
ObamaMart has different rules than Acme.
ObamaMart is a new driving force behind equality in produce outcome.
ObamaMart believes that all fruits/Vegetables were created equal and therefore all fruits/vegetables should have the same opportunity in outcome.
To that end ObamaMart commits to insuring the dignity, value and purchase security of all its products.    It says that on the front window in big bold words.
Today when you enter the produce section, it’s all behind the counter, under the direct control of the ObamaMart produce workers.   Everything is behind the protective shield which was constructed to insure equality in outcome.
You approach the sign which says “Tomatoes Here”.
The man at the counter asks you “how many you would like“?   You respond by saying “may I see them“?   The answer is a rather snarky “NO, why would you need to do that – all our tomatoes are created equal“?
Stunned you reply “but I don’t intend to use them all today” thinking that will suffice to give a reason for him to let you see them.    Instead he responds rather loudly:

“what are you, a tomato racist”?

Yikes, the other two customers in line just gave you a nasty look.
Rut roh….   Things are fundamentally different here for sure.
Your mind is racing.
You still have the same needs, but you are not allowed to use the same independent method of personal evaluation.   Now you must rely on the ObamaMart worker to give you whatever he wants based on quantity alone, regardless of quality.
What do you do ?

….. and people wonder why our economy is stalled !