War on the US poor continues

Here's an essay in The New York Times about the curtailment of unemployment benefits in the US:

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/28/us/benefits-ending-for-one-million-of-unemployed.html

... and another on the World Socialist Web Site:

http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/12/28/pers-d28.html

If the US economy actually were improving and if the unemployment rate actually were decreasing, this might make sense. But using the cynical trick of saying the long-term unemployed have decided voluntarily to stay out of the workforce is total bullshit.

If there WERE jobs, people would take them. And by this I mean JOBS, not slave wages.