I don't feel, under current circumstances, that we owe this country anything. Working-class people are getting screwed. We are also the economic draftees that now fill the US military. I spent four years in the Navy, fortunately in peace time. Another nephew did the same, after graduated from high school with no prospects. His twin brother has been in the Army twice, was in Afghanistan.

The Vietnam era draft gave all the middle-class folks who went to college a pass, so it was also very classist. I can't see how it did anything to combat income inequality, and it made a lot of young people very angry. They were being exploited -- and threatened, even if they were in college -- to promote US imperialism. 

I would support a massive federal jobs program. There would be no need to make it mandatory, since so many are struggling to survive.