Obama has a soft spot in his heart for the Chinese method of governance and expansion:

And if in the process of building this wonderful new infrastructure, I protest that it will tear down my home, will you also send me for "re-education through labor"?  Unless you are terribly naive Barack, you know that the speed with which this infrastructure came about came at a high cost to civil liberties.  One which we as a people feel is too high to pay... so much so that we enshrined it in our Constitution.

Of course your new Vice Presidential pick knows all about forced labor.  He wants mandatory conscription for all citizens to the army, or civil service corps:

In 1988, [we in Congress] not only introduced a bill for mandatory universal service, but you get to pick one of three things: if you chose the army, it's six months; if you chose a domestic Peace Corps, it's two years; if you chose foreign Peace Corps, you only have to do it a year. Everyone man and woman when they get to be eighteen they can chose what they want, but there should be universal service unless there is an extreme physical disability.

Is this how you intend to bring about "Change We Can Believe In"?  Forced labor and service?