Military Draft to Return to America: An Easy Prediction

Because the current economic recession will turn into an undeclared depression due to Obama’s collectivist ideological policies, something needs to be done to absorb “excess labor” created by the lack of business activity, meaning the absence of jobs, in the national economy.   Since the welfare state requires a warfare state as a logical reciprocal matter, the welfare-warfare State of this nation will continue the war, especially in Afghanistan, for years to come. 

This can be obviously seen, e.g., by the dramatic additional 17,000 troops recently authorized, by the Great One, for further expected combat there.   As with, e.g., LBJ and his Great Society, the Anointed One also wants his own spectacular version of a full “guns and butter economy,” as it used to be called.   Those who remember the 1960s and 1970s know, however, just what all that sadly means and, thus, terribly meant as to the number of precious American lives lost to a lost war.

Obama’s Future Full Employment Policy

Unemployment will be partly solved, in a major way, by simply reinstituting the military draft, though this time to cover, in our much more egalitarian era, both men and women, ages 18 to 25.  This is not really, however, an extremely farfetched notion as it might seem to many people who are politically uninformed.   For instance, US Rep. Charles Rangel, among others, strongly favors having a draft, as seen in his thinking that it would be supposedly, he thinks, more highly democratic by including people from different socioeconomic levels or strata. 

Due to the proclaimed and often observed charismatic nature of Obama, moreover, it may very well be possible to convincingly or creatively resell the idea of a seemingly universal draft to further create a broader national commitment regarding a sustainable war policy for this nation.

National conscription has, historically, been a most successful safety value, for many countries, that have had to contend with reducing substantially the economic problem of unemployment, as had been notoriously true, e. g, for Nazi Germany, which might be his (unspoken) model for having a draft.  It was, moreover, a rather prominent feature of what might be reasonably called Hitlerian economics.   So, there are, therefore, many clearly historical precedents to be readily found, if ever needed.    

As the Obama-enhanced recession turns, through his Fabian Socialist policies, toward a growing and, probably, quite major depression in America, something will simply have to be done about many new people, young citizens, who would wish to enter the national labor force during a time of rather high unemployment.  

The various justifications for renewed conscription would, substantially, multiply along with the ever rising rate of unemployment that, as of February 2009, stands at about or near 8% of the domestic work force.   Many economists, it can be critically noted, have generally indicated that should it reach about 12%, then they would to consider that the present recession had, to all intents and purposes, turned into an official depression.   That awfully discouraging designation, of course, would seem to be fairly intolerable to a former political candidate who had once claimed that he would be, in fact, successful concerning the economy. 

A Feature of Dubious Economic Success

Most likely, it could be anticipated that the Fearless Leader of the nation, the Anointed One, will claim that it is being merely reinstituted as only a “temporary measure” for handling current economic difficulties and, furthermore, to seek better financial and social adjustments needed by the wartime economy.   Once troop levels, to be determined by Obama and his advisors, reach a certain upper limit for properly insuring that enough military force on the ground in both Iraq, decreasingly so, and Afghanistan, increasingly so, can do the fundamental expected job, as to the overall war effort, then the draft might be slowly (if ever) ended.   

At a minimum, however, the Great One would still be able to have, reassuringly, claimed that he had, substantially, reduced most or, at least, much unemployment in this country.   Pragmatically speaking, many people, especially most of his political supporters, would then tend to basically agree with such an assessment of plain fact, though the nation’s economy, on the whole, would be, by then, mainly shot to hell, of course. 

Orwellian Double-Think Triumphant

Nonetheless, it would be boldly cited, mainly by pro-Administration economists, as a still truly positive economic achievement and significant accomplishment that had then notably occurred, by his always wonderful expert action, during a rather nasty depression (which his own ideologically-based efforts had greatly created, though that needed fact would be left carefully unmentioned, of course).   

Since there would be fewer people, logically speaking, competing for the available supply of jobs in the economy, it would seem fairly reasonable, to various commentators at least, that the relative but real decline of the unemployment rate was something to appreciate.

The problem of such excess labor in the work force would be eliminated because the available labor pool could be reduced to better match the lower supply of jobs, of actual employment, that might exist in the domestic labor supply as a whole.   If someone’s labor time is fully taken up by being a member of a country’s armed forces, then, ipso facto, it is the plain case that that person cannot be, by definition, unemployed.  

For many seriously duped or ignorant people, (just look at the tens of millions who had voted for the Great One) Obama will, therefore, seem as if he were a truly great politico-economic magician, as long as Orwellian double-think is not excluded.   Sadly, Adolf Hitler, supposedly once having been another Anointed One, is devilishly laughing in his cursed grave.