I actually don’t have a problem with this. I would like to see successful completion of national service as a prerequisite to voting, getting a government job, holding office, or getting federal assistance of any type.
This could be a minimum 2 year hitch in the military, with an additional 10 years as active reserve status or civilian service for 3 years. There should be a wide choice for civilian service — foreign missions for a church, a modern day CCC, working for a State forestry or land management bureau, a county redevelopment agency, a hospice, childcare in an inner city day care center — really anything to improve the nation and community. Direct federal program as a last resort.
I think id like a say in what you do this afternoon.... you like that?
Some have gotten into government jobs because of that two years.
Their competence level is questionable.
And, I don't find them grounded in reality. They have a pie-in-the-sky reasoning about very serious situations.
We have had Peace Corps since JFK. That's nearly 55 years and not much has changed in the world.
Based upon results, it has been a complete waste of human resources and money. IMHO!
Your proposal would require an amendment to the Constitution of the United States.
Amendment XIII Section 1.
Neither Slavery or involuntary servitude, except as punishment for crime, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.
Every dollar spend on something like this will be a dollar that could have gone to restore the military.
A free man decides when and how to serve his country, as I did. A subject serves as his masters tell him to.