Agree with the intention. Short on the probability.
Why that.. that! would render obsolescent the wry ballet, The Green Table and retire the white-glove clad gesticulators.. almost.
Among points raised above:
1) Inefficiency. The idea of the "10 persons behind every one actually engaged" - this re initial training, refining of skills etc. This also re the much more complex interrelation to The Economy as a whole, and that part dedicated to 'Peace Actions\ufffd'. Since that is the topic for a shelf of opinions - let's stick with one inherited dinosaur at a time.
2) Prerequisites: if.. we cannot even get campaign finance reform First, thus restoring a semblance of politicos representing constituents who are Not CIEIOs - then no such wholesale redefinition of citizens' obligations has as much chance as say, Rev. Foulwell speaking without that smirk on his face.
I don't see any sustainable argument against the reasoning For such a change; I see lots of dissembling and Flag-waving noise most likely torpedoing any efforts to bring it about. Kennedy's inaug. speech, "Ask not what your country can do for you..." - was 42 years ago. This is now.
All-in-all, I believe that this is unlikely ever to be implemented. This for all reasons of the paranoid style in Murican politico-babble. Being sure that Your ox is not gored - is the mother's milk of every politico's actual manipulations - and the For Release hype is always a string of soothing blab words, eagerly swallowed. In the end, and perhaps even before a campaign finance reform could happen:
We (very many) would have to have rediscovered a respect for language - demonstrated by ridicule of those who patently field the blab words. Y'know? Besides, from such an epiphany -- we would then be able to embark upon so many related reforms, that we would soon be unrecognizable as we became.. more and more, an adult civilization (!) The above matter might even be rendered moot!
Lovely idea, that last - but have you checked our average raw material lately? Betcha we gots legions of Marlowes - and hardly a single Sgt. York or Audie Murphy in the flock of consumers du jour. I believe that most Muricans take it as inexorable techno 'advancement': the Nintendo war fought by the uniformed potato on the couch, presented on Tee Vee for the nightly vicarious Ten Minutes of Hate. That er bravery of being out of range, per someone's sig.
Missing so far in Dubya's flailings to emulate G\ufffdbbels - are the caricatures of Saddam: with buck-teeth (a la 'Japs', in US posters) or as a rodent (Jews in G's film clips). There's never anything new in propaganda to support a planned next
Ashton