Military service is still mandatory in a number of countries. It has several objectives such as providing training, protection from military coups and potential enemies, and the use of the manpower for general interest purpose. Anyway, most find it annoying to serve and been kept busy at unwanted tasks, and somehow useless in countries that have been at peace for decades or centuries.The government has, on the other hand, a whole lot of employees to run the country. There are almost all kind of professions.
What about creating a mandatory civil service to be served by everyone, men and women, after they decide they don't want to study anymore. People would have to start the civil service after one or two years without school registration, so they still have time to try, fail, and try to study something else, or travel the world, or anything. But normal work or business ownership would be forbidden without a completion certificate.People would work in their field of knowledge, gaining their first work experience. They would be paid an acceptable but somehow low salary to keep the government's expenses low. The low salary would compensate the fact that "employment" would be guaranteed: everyone would get a government job when asked for.Civil Service would be a couple years, enough to fill all the government's needs. This short time would make it difficult for serving people to maintain corruption schemes over the "generations", as government people are tempted to, and in several countries this can take a large scale.
The overall political structure would remain unchanged, with normal cyclic elections. Higher grade government employees would also be kept as long as needed, forming the government's "skeleton".
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I'm not for this. IMHO, there are far too many people working for the various governments in the USA, and in my state, county, city, etc. While you could probably do many of the tasks with less-skilled just out-of-high-school kids, I think the true problem is that they're doing too many tasks and have their noses in too many issues. Giving them every person in the USA will require more trainers and more full time government and for little return.
When I was a kid growing up in the state capitol, all of the government offices were in the Capitol Building and "The State Office Building.". Now the State occupies at least four of the largest office buildings in the city and most of the smaller buildings downtown. The same works for the county I live in--they built a new high-school and the next thing, the county government occupies the ENTIRE old high school. Who are these people and why do we need them?
I realize that we elected the people that have expanded government so much, but I just think we need to look around and notice this. As goverment continues to grow, what is there to stop it?
We need to decrease the number of civil 'servants.' If everyone did time in the goverment, that would hardly do that. To me, they're riding in the wagon that the rest of us are pushing.