Nice Guys Finish Last

Hundreds of billions of dollars have been spent on the war in Iraq. President Bush claims that they money is well spent and that we must stay the course. Yet take a look at home since the initiation of that war in 2002.

Gas prices have rocketed to all-time highs and continue to rise despite the lower price of oil per barrel and the lack of natural disasters to disrupt our flow of supply into the United States. The cost of living continually increases yet it has taken nearly 13 years to get another minimum wage increase, and we are only going to increase it a little over $7? Medication prices are so out of hand that senior citizens are forced to purchase medication from Canada or simply do without. Medicare is dangling in the balance for the future recipients, jobs are disappearing everywhere and the rich continue getting richer.

Our government has, for too long, ignored the real problems it should be tackling here on our soil. Look at the poor response in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. You can attribute that to the fact our military is spread across the world when we needed them here the most. People will argue that we must continue having interests across the globe or it could end up causing us great harm in the end. I am here to tell you that, with prior experience, nice guys finish last and that is exactly where the United States will end up if we keep shoving ourselves into places where we do not belong thinking we are playing the nice guy. Our kindness is not wanted by the majority of the world, believe it or not. So it is time we bring the troops home, stop spending money on forced conflicts with innocent nations and try to mend the opens wounds we have left throughout the world over the last 50 years while starting what we should have started on decades ago: Helping ourselves.

Here's a solution. How about dividing up that money you say that need for YOUR war, Mr. Bush, and giving it to the people who need it most...the people who put you in that damn office.