What's going on with this country

I have worked all my life and just got laid off from my job i am 50 years old and i am having a hard time finding a job at my age .The jobs that i do find don't pay much to survive on working on minimum wage is ridiculous you can not live off this now i turned to the government to help me in my time of need like unemployment and that is even worst .Job's are scarce here in the U.S.A . Now this discussion is about how our government is spending our tax dollars .I see that our government spend it in a foolish way like for instance i hear all the time in the news how this government does not have any money to help it's citizens like creating new jobs for us so we can live .Now this is the big question why is it that our government can't find the money to help out it's own citizens but it could find plenty of money to go to war .If our government can find money to kill people why is it that they can't find money to help people. Our government has spent over 2 billion dollars over in Iraq why is it that they  can't use that money to help us out in our time of need . I would love a response to this question so maybe i can understand why this is happening thank you .