Hey Republicans, Democrats, We Want JOBS not Wars!

No matter where you stand on the political spectrum, majority rule is the principal that is supposed to govern America. But for at least 4 years, including 2 years with President Obama in the White House, the majority of the American people have been against the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The majority are right -- these wars have drained funding for schools, healthcare, environmental, and social development programs and instead have spent US taxpayer dollars on destroying other nations.
And the American people right because these wars have not only NOT eliminated threats they promised to, but in fact, only multiplied hatred for Americans abroad and ruined our global reputation as a peaceful nation. The majority want an immediate end to military action in Iraq and Afghanistan. Why hasn't it happened?
The war continues today, and instead of our tax payer dollars going towards jobs rebuilding our aging infrastructure, jobs in clean energy, jobs in healthcare, our country's wealth in being spent of guns, tanks, and bombs. In fact, Department of Labor Statistics show a U-6, or total number of unemployed Americans at 16%, triple what it was in peace time. We now have an economy akin to that of Great Depression. The ultimate problem, the king of them all, is the dangerous concentration of political power into the hands corporations.

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[DelilahZoe]

When we vote for the President, every American citizen speaks -- President Obama was overwhelmingly elected for the purpose of ENDING THE WARS. His now Secretary of State promised a withdrawal of all troops in 6 to 8 months of being in power. Its been 2 years. 

[Arweto01]

I think people should only vote once their truly informed about the various issues that affect everyday life. A person may cast a vote purely based on hearsay and not on facts. Politicians are skilled in hiding the facts and presenting stalemate solutions. It takes an expectional individual to see through them.

[MyBrotherMan]

Majority rule is for places with a worthless constitution that exists for show only. Like Switzerland. A majority of voters banned minarets there so now Muslims are S.O.L. What is a Constitution even for except to protect the rights of minorities from being oppressed by majorities? If any vote at all becomes law, then half the people, plus one, can bully, oppress, even enslave the other half with complete impunity. There are many very nice countries like that; safe and affluent. Check one out!

[MyBrotherMan]

Majority rule? What do you think this is, some two-bit democracy? We have a Constitution to protect the people from tyranny of the majority: that's called a republic. That means that the wars we are fighting now, while approved by the majority of Congress, are not lawful, because Congress did not declare war as mandated by the Constitution, but voted to give the president unlimited war power, which is not a power Congress has to begin with.

If this were a democracy, the wars would be legit!