While restaurants across the country are closing, in Washington DC money is no object.

The Obamas have made wagyu beef popular in the capital.  For you unemployed, or if you're having trouble buying gas and paying for groceries, please know that Washingtonians are into fine dining on your dime. 

Glenn Reynolds:

Yes, you can really see that in the packed, expensive restaurants in the Capital. It doesn’t look like the rest of the country. It looks like the rest of the country pre-2007, only fancier. Here’s a pic I snapped when I was there with Roger Simon last fall. Roger remarked that you used to see this kind of thing in Hollywood restaurants, but not so much any more.

D.C. — now not just “Hollywood for ugly people,” but “Hollywood for ugly people who party on your dime!”