Draft

While watching an interview recently I saw the suggestion of reinstating the draft. While I personally don't want to be in the military I'm not so sure this is a bad idea. Right now America really prides itself on having a volunteer army, and quote statistics that volunteer armies are more effective than conscripted armies. I don't really have a problem with that, people that really don't want to be in the army aren't going to be effective army personnel. It is the same with any job. But the draft isn't exactly what I was thinking about. What I was thinking is that a mandatory government service would be a good idea. Many countries have mandatory military service at age 18 and while I'm not a big fan of the military, it isn't a bad idea, but I think perhaps just having a mandatory service job of some kind would be very beneficial to the country in general. Having a government workforce that is always being renewed would allow for plenty of improvements to the country to be done as well as provide jobs and training to everyone in the country. While this wouldn't solve all of the countries problems it would certainly help many of the problems the country is going through now. Of course this isn't really a realistic solution for our country. We aren't big on major changes to the status quo, so it would be more than hard to implement, and with how our country makes decisions it would be impossible for everyone to come even close to agreeing on what was the best approach. My two cents.