Just who the hell is going to volunteer for all this crap? Why would people do things for their government for free, when an Obama administration will reward indolence with "free" money(i.e. garnished from my paychecks)? Sure, there will be a few hippies and college kids, but by and large people don't care enough - that's why we have power brokers in government, not genuinely concerned, involved citizens. I wish I could say Obama is foolishly idealistic - but he's smarter than that. His ideas are just insulting.
People volunteer for "free" all the time, when there are other rewards to be had. For some, it's service. For others, it's power. Once the mechanism is established, you can convert free to pay easy enough. What was the initial pay scale for the Communist Party? The Brownshirts? Both started as volunteer organizations.
Do you think La Raza would recruit people to join this, if that meant La Raza had a say in "patrolling" the border?
The problem with all the "we'll survive" is that people are comparing Obama to Carter. There is no comparison.
Carter studied Nimitz, Halsey, and trained under Rickover. Obama studied Marx and Lenin.
Carter governed in an era where domestic and foreign intel was heavily curtailed. Obama will come to power with the most intrusive tools at his immediate disposal (didn't the Dems promise to get rid of said tools instead of renewing them).
Carter governed when memories of Nixon with his enemy's list were real. Obama's immediate Dem predeccesor made the IRS a tool of personal vengeance, and the FBI a mechanism for punishing those engaged in thought crimes.
Carter was actually fairly humble. Obama has been taught that he is the messiah and the sole hope for America.
Stop thinking Carter, and start thinking Chavez. The US will "survive" Obama in much the same way Venezuela has "survived" Chavez: the territory remains the same, but the nation itself is very different.