... When questioned about restoring the draft back in 2004, Massachusetts Senator John Kerry, in a moment of rare frankness, replied that the old-style draft was no longer needed. “We have,” he told reporters, “an economic draft.” In even plainer language, the United States armed forces rely on a poverty draft.
Millions of youth emerging from high school every year face bleak prospects for careers and higher education. Good jobs are hard to find, vocational training slots aren't free and don't guarantee a job on completion or even completion itself. Their already strapped families can't even borrow the sixty, eighty or hundred thousand it will take for one child to get a bachelor's degree. But the military recruiter they see in high school every day drives a flashy new car, has a nice apartment, dresses well on and off duty, picks up the tab at restaurants every day, and has an answer for everything. Really, just one answer, that the straight road to acceptance, independence and adulthood lies through the military...
The ridiculously high unemployment rates are on purpose. During Viet Nam they discovered they could not keep an Empire with a slave army. Much better to have highly indoctrinated and desperate volunteers. The high unemployment situation does that, among other things good for the Empire.
Bad for its citizens, the Depressed proles, the vaporizing middle class on the treadmill to economic oblivion as the fossil fuels run out, though.
Unless you're one of the wealthy folks that matter to the $ystem, in which case, hey, the Recession is so over.
Just ask Larry "Mission Accomplished" Summers going back to his cushy Harvard tenure and million-dollar-a-year speaking engagements.
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