Many German university students, from 1934 on, worked without pay in “farm service” jobs in the eastern border regions.
Most American college students score so high on the “narcissism” scale on psych tests as to be clinically ill. Our culture has made them so ego-centric and self-centered as to have the ego of a mega-genius in the brain of a moron.
They would all benefit most from six years in the military; three of them in basic training.
Barring that, farm service along the Mexico border would do the job.
Ditto for welfare addicts and the long-term jobless. If you don’t take the first job available, full- or part-time, we’ll put you to work in the new Civilian Conservation Corps and send all your wages back home to your families.
Naturally, any such program would get loud protests from the Hispanic community, maybe even formal objections from the Mexican government (the number one source of income to Mexico is wages sent back home by workers in the U.S.).
No doubt the ACLU would file suit on their behalf. Then, even if they lost the court battle, Obama would simply yank all funding for the program, and it would never happen.