"An Army of One" might perhaps be precised to "You'll get what you pay for!", put another way,"Pay for monkeys and get peanuts in return!
...or, possibly, "Pilots work for money, if you want loyalty, get a dog."
411A , you make the standard American error of thinking that the world begins and ends at your shores. It doesn't, and there are already some extremely encouraging signs of wholesale employment resuming- we have taken about ten new pilots ourselves, and airlines such as Easyjet, Ryanair and Go have been hiring steadily since 9/11. Others have signalled their intention to recruit shortly (and we are talking heavy jet operators, not Regionals). All the predictions on this side of the pond point to a shortage in the near future.
The "furlough" system is a feature of US operators, doesn't happen much anywhere else in the world- and it is the uncertainty of the US pilot employment market that drives the number of CV's crossing your desk- most, I should think, from very inexperienced pilots.
Interestingly, few, if any, pilot recruitment agencies seeem to have gone broke recently.