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Originally Posted by California Tanker
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The other cynical part of me wonders if the politicians of the pro-business parties would ever willingly bring our troops home- with unemployment numbers up, what would they do with all those veterans back and returning to work, in a weak economy?
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There's going to be no massive demobilisation, the military's still not yet reached its target strength. Guardsmen returning home will either re-start their businesses if they are self-employed, or return to their jobs which have legal protection: They're not going to suddenly all show up on the unemployment line because they can't find a job.
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Returning the Guard, even if you do so over a year or more, still solidly increases unemployment. The people currently working the jobs the Guards are returning to, will then be unemployed. 22,000 + jobs sounds like a hit to me. I was being over-cynical though in suggesting that keeping unemployment down would be a political motivation to prolong troop deployment.