The Sakura was pale and the daffodils grey-ish this year why is the Arrow of Time pointing away from DC?

The spending binge that Obama has glorified Washington D.C. with over the past 2 years has been a boom for the area and the bureaucrats who occupy the vicinity. The slump in the rest of the country belies the fake veneer of this "prosperity". The economic reality that the "arrow of time" points to is the irrelevance of this administration's failed economic policy.