EDITORIAL - President Bush asked Congress on Monday for several billion dollars in spending for nations abroad, including an effort to supposedly help fight drug trafficking, along with the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Included in the president's request was $500 million to help Mexico fend off drug dealers who may enter the United States through our unprotected southern borders, an initiative that would seem to prove nearly impossible to enforce and monitor.

The request also included a whopping $724 million to fund a U.N. peacekeeping mission in Darfur, along with $50 million to “fight drug trafficking” in Central America.

"All of these are urgent priorities of the United States, and the Congress should fund them without delay," Bush said.

It is hard to believe that our president believes devoting $50 million to combat drug trafficking in Central America is an “urgent priority” of the United States. The thought of our government throwing billions of dollars to unnecessary initiatives abroad should be enough to make the good taxpayers of the United States literally sick to their stomachs.

Spending is the main driving force behind this nation's skyrocketing deficits, and President Bush seems unwilling and unable to do anything about it, besides perpetuating the tide of wasteful spending and fiscal irresponsibility.

We encourage every American to tell President Bush and their respective representatives to oppose all pieces of wasteful legislation, like this recent budget bill sent to Congress yesterday, and instead demand fiscal restraint and responsible decision-making with the taxpayer's money.