I had an idea last night that might single handily cure many of America's problems, from education, to failing infrastructure, and even health care. 

Bear with me.  It takes two steps.

Austria, Brazil, Chile, China, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Greece, Israel, South Korea, Mexico, Norway, Poland, Sweden, Switzerland, and many other nations all have mandatory military enlistment.  There is nothing unconstitutional in the USA with us implementing the same policy.  We've had military drafts many times in our history. 

So, our first step is to implement mandatory two year military enlistment for all citizens at the age of 18.  Since we will have such an enormous number of individuals in the military, we will be able to expand its role and include things like road construction, pre-school education, and a host of other services that our nation is in need of.  We are using our military to rebuild Afghanistan and Iraq, so why not use it to rebuild America?

The second step is to expand the services of our veteran’s administration to include health care for all former servicemen, servicewomen and their children, and maintain this care from the time they enter the service until death.  

All in all it's a good deal; a lifetime of health care coverage in exchange for two years of service to ones country.  Pragmatic Patriotism.  

Our nation gets what it needs with regard to repairing and rebuilding, and our citizens get what they need with regard to health care, a win/win if there ever was one.

I wonder if anyone in Washington D.C. is reading my blog.