The grinches who stole the unemployment extension

Once again, the party of stupid has also shown its mendacious side.  Instead of passing a clean extension of unemployment benefits for the long term unemployed, the GOP keeps insisting the government must cut other programs to pay for the extension.  As I and many others have said before, this makes no sense from either an economic or moral perspective.  Despite the call for these "lazy moochers" to get off their butts and get a job, there are no jobs for many who have been out of work for more than a year.  To voice the heretofore unsayable, many of these people will never find jobs in our evolving economy.  As corporations continue to do more with less people, we need to come to terms with a permanent class of unemployables.  The alternative is for the government to become the employer of last resort.  This presents another conundrum to the heartless.   They want to cut benefits, but they are unwilling to make sure everyone who wants to work can get a job.  As our social contract evolves, the government must become more involved in people's lives, not less.  Either that or I can envision a dystopic future including walled compounds and security guards holding back the proletariat, or a bread and circuses, Roman Empire type of society.  Neither is a pretty picture, and the Republicans seem determined to destroy the social contract.  Unfortunately, they don't seem to offer anything but a dark vision of the future.