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DMFParadox -> RE: Random unemployment thought. (10/17/2008 11:08:36 AM)
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This is a country of 300,000,000 people, and we have about 300,000 troops deployed in hot zones. Maybe 400,000; hard numbers aren't something I can find easily on google, which is actually kind of reassuring. Having been a soldier I don't exactly want people to know just how many of us there are near your friendly neighborhood third-world armed militia. Still, this link is telling: http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/ops/iraq_orbat.htm
If you do the math, that's about 1 tenth of 1 percent of the U.S. population; and a lot of those troops are full-timers, others are business owners and employers, still more are going to come back to jobs, comfortably, with no contiguous loss of employment for someone else; thus lowering the unemployment rate, however minutely. Then you'll have all of the full-timers coming home and spending money, boosting local economies and increasing job opportunities.
Some towns may be affected if they have a strong local military population, such as the Tidewater region.
Last but not least, the need for skilled workers, especially in the tech sector, is screamingly high. There is a dire need for skilled--skilled, mind you--programmers and professionals. I imagine that this isn't isolated to the I.T. field. Not even India can keep up with the demand, and they're churning out decent techies like there's no tomorrow.
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