Personal Responsibility

A lack of personal responsibility undermines our communities and society in ways that hurt generations to come.

As the size and scope of our government continues to grow at an undescribable pace, it is time to call the welfare class what they are: slaves. It is time to end the slave class before it is too late for everyone.

Tough having to act like a grown up, huh?

The fact of the matter is that the lack of personal responsibility on the part many Americans - not anything former President Bush did -- has brought on most of our recent woes.

Most of us learn to take responsibility for ourselves slowly, as we grow to adulthood. Some people have to gain this ability more than once in a lifetime.

There is tremendous value in personal responsibility, but there shouldn't be such blame and callousness attributed to the victims of crime - unless, of course, we're willing to extend that level of personal responsibility to all individuals who are victimized by criminals.

The Occupy Wall Street movement is becoming an international movement, but there is now a counter movement called the 53 percent. After reading the posts by 53 percent supporters, here is what I think about this movement.

Here is why I want Barbara's lawyer. She just won $28 million for suing a tobacco company for giving her cancer.

Read through the following list of techniques for rationalizing wrongdoing and see if you can think of a recent example in which you used one or more of them...

If you want freedom, you have to accept personal responsibility for your life.

Change or moving ahead are not goals shared by everyone. Here are eight useful tips for people who need help figuring out how to stay stuck right where they are.

What laws control our lives? Should we obey these laws? What effect does following our own laws have upon us?

Making sense of joining the armed forces has its debate today. We are riding on the coattails of our founding fathers way too far into the future. It is time for a new perspective.

Debunking some myths concerning rich people and how they live their lives.

America is changing but is it in the right direction?

The happiest and most successful people on earth, the people who get things done and make history out of their lives, true leaders, know that life is about personal choices.

Put down the remote and take responsibility for your actions in modern society.

Have the conservatives lost an opportunity to strike a blow against the Obama administration?

Not all plateaus of empowerment are created equal.

We all perform different jobs and have different careers but we all use money, it is our one common denominator. What is your relationship with money? And are you interested in a relationship with money that works?

This creative writing is my plan to help all of us be a reunited American Family

People view freedom normally as a simple term. But in today's society, it is anything but simple.

Taking mortgages you can't afford, the big car companies making bad business decisions, banks having bad policies... Why are we rewarding them?

We tend to blame others in our failures. The following simple steps can help you to stop blaming and take full responsibility for your life.

Alarming health risks are increasing as fast as America's waist. A look at public policy and American health.

A satirical look at personal responsibility in America, using the example of the Rhapsody Music Services commercial featuring people floating in bubbles containing different music.

Who is to blame for the current economy?

Limerick about why the GOP is not pleased with their candidate this week.

If you live right, prosperity will befall you. Live wrong and treat others poorly, you will be miserable and alone and have no one to blame but yourself.

I find myself so troubled by these kinds of films, for two reasons: one, because I agree with them in large part, and two, because I think they disseminate falsehoods that hurt people.

This piece was a personal statement about my own struggle to avoid sinking with the ship of clinical depression.

Lack of personal responsibility leads to poor health.

If your children aren't doing so well, maybe it IS you -- not your parenting, but your behavior. Have you taken real personal responsibility for your own life?

To some, worry is part and parcel of everyday life...