Unemployment over 11% in DC

Times are hard in our nations capital. It is reported that jobless rate high of high of 11.1% in DC. Meanwhile on the other coast in California, unemployment has gone over 12% the highest in seventy years. Yet, Ben Bernake says we are out of the great recession. Should I laugh or cry is the question. Neither is the answer. I predict that things will get worse in the months to comel.