How is it possible that President Obama can order $100 million in U.S. aid for the victims of the Haiti earthquake, but he can’t provide aid to the people in his own country that are suffering?

I have nothing against sending aid to Haiti and helping them during this devastating time, but to the tune of more than $100 million?! China – the richest country in the world – offered assistance and donated $1 million to relief efforts. Meanwhile, America – a country that is BANKRUPT – donated $100 million!

How in the hell can the U.S. government send money we do not have? We cannot and should not help everyone else when we can’t seem to figure out how to help ourselves.

Our country is currently in debt to the tune of $11.4 trillion dollars. Plain and simple: we are way beyond BROKE. America is in a serious crisis. We cannot continue to turn our backs on the problems we face within our own government and the issues impacting the people of this country.

I couldn’t run a business at a deficit, so why should our government continuously be allowed to do so? Obama currently has his sights set on overhauling legally mandated programs (Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid) and raising taxes to bring the deficit back to a sustainable level. When is Obama going to wake up and realize that when the country and its people are short on cash you don’t raise taxes – you lower them?!

I will say it again: America should be run like a business. And in business, when you are faced with a deficit, there are pay cuts and layoffs across the board. We need to shrink and consolidate government operations. We need to end big government.

Obama needs a hardcore business lesson from Mitt Romney. During his term as Governor of Massachusetts, Romney successfully turned around the state’s economy, reducing an approximately $3 billion deficit and leaving office with the state at a surplus of more than $1 million. Romney sure as heck didn’t achieve this by raising taxes. He did it by reducing and consolidating government.

Obama needs to start thinking more like a CEO. Only then will Americans start to experience some relief.