Personal Responsibility

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Alimony Reform

Fred Silberberg | Posted 11.13.2009 | Living

Read More: Texas, Personal Responsibility, Alimony, Marriage, Welfare, Family Law, Standard of Living, Spousal-Support, Living News

While the initial concept of alimony was intended to assist someone in taking steps to support himself or herself, our existing system has turned into a system of private welfare.

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Christopher Bizilj's Family Files Suit: Family Blames Teen For 8-Year-Old's Uzi Death At Gun Show

AP | Posted 11.10.2009 | Home

Read More: Westfield Sportsman's Club, Gun Show, Chris Bizilj, Parenting, Personal Responsibility, Gun Laws, Gun Shows, Uzi, Submachine Gun, Connecticut, Ashford, Gun Show Deaths, Christopher Bizilj, Massachusetts, Gun Safety, Home News

SPRINGFIELD, Mass. — The family of an 8-year-old boy who fatally shot himself at a gun show in western Massachusetts say the Uzi submachine gun ...

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Life Sucks And It's Society's Fault

Russell Bishop | Posted 11.09.2009 | Living

Read More: Blame, Personal Responsibility, Responsibility, The Inner Life, Choice, Quality of Life, Living News

Sure, you can blame the advertisements, the TV shows and the greedy bankers if you want, but it still comes down to who drank the Kool-Aid, not who made the Kool-Aid.

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Starting Over After a Recession: Helping Obama Build an Economic "House on a Rock"

Ryan Mack | Posted 10.13.2009 | Business

Read More: Personal Responsibility, Patriotism, Ryan-Mack, President Barack Obama, Economic Crisis, Economic Recovery, Accountability, Patriotic, Fiscal Responsibility, Business News

President Obama has his five pillars that he plans to use as a foundation for strengthening the economy. We can use these same pillars to apply to our daily lives.

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Why I Divorced the Democratic Party: A Response to My Health Care Critics

Keli Goff | Posted 10.12.2009 | Politics

Read More: Personal Responsibility, Party Loyalty, TheLoop21.Com, Black Voters, TheLoop21, Health Care Reform, Environmentalism, Parenting, Democrats, Barack Obama, Republicans, Carolyn Maloney, Politics News

When I started writing about young Black voters, I found that I had much more in common with some of my subjects than with some of the liberals I had worked with and for.

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How Obama's Nobel Prize Will Affect Our Children

Danielle Cavallucci | Posted 10.09.2009 | Living

Read More: Personal Responsibility, Raising Children, Nobel Prize, Obama, Obama Nobel Prize, Living News

The trouble in awarding this prize to the president in advance of delivery on promise, is that we set the precedent that one needs only have a thought or an idea to be rewarded.

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The Hamlet Secret: Joyful Living!

James M. Lynch | Posted 10.09.2009 | Living

Read More: Personal Responsibility, Personal Transformation, The Hamlet Secret, Responsibility, Personal Growth, Hamlet, The-Hamlet-Secret, Personal Development, Shakespeare, Mahatma Gandhi, Tikkun Olam, James M. Lynch, Gandhi, Happiness, Living News

Whatever the result, whatever happened, it is all your "fault" (read "responsibility"). By adopting this stance, you become empowered to take on any situation no matter what.

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Will We Ever Hear the Message Instead of 'Shooting the Messenger?'

Deane Waldman | Posted 10.08.2009 | Politics

We owe it to ourselves to consider Congressman Roe's Healthcare Reform Bill memo, as our important concern, without reference to our biases, should be the message itself, not the messenger.

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Family Fun and Fitness

Peter Clothier | Posted 09.30.2009 | Living

Read More: Personal Responsibility, Book Review, Childhood Nutrition, Diet, Health Care, Nutrition, Childhood Obesity, Knute Keeling, Michelle Obama Garden, Pregnancy, Obama Smoking Habit, Pre-Pregnancy, Living News

We are reminded by the current debate about health care that we are, as a nation, doing a pretty poor job of taking care of the bodies we have been given to inhabit for the course of our earthly lives.

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You Can Never Get Enough Of What You Don't Really Want

Russell Bishop | Posted 11.14.2009 | Living

Read More: Personal Responsibility, Positive Outlook, Positive Thinking, Responsibility, Positive Focus, The Inner Life, Choice, Russell Bishop, Living News

As difficult as things may be, there's almost always something we can do to improve...Fundamentally, the most important choice any of us can make when confronted with life challenges is how we respond.

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Personal Responsibility: In Education? Yes! In Health Care? No!

Deane Waldman | Posted 11.12.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Is a Right, Healthcare System, Medical Malpractice, Healthcare Financing, Obamacare, Hr 3200, Morals, Evidence Based Decision Making, Medical Negligence, Medical Errors, Root Cause Analysis, Healthcare Regulations, Personal Responsibility, Obama Healthcare, Ealthcare, Hipaa, ARRA 2009, Adverse Medical Outcomes, America’s Affordable Health Choices Act, Medical Costs, Systems Thinking, Ethics, Problem Solving, Single Payer, Health Insurance, Health Care Reform, Aahca, Universal Health Care, Health Information Technology, Electronic Medical Records, Politics News

When President Obama gave his speech on health care, he spoke as though the phrase personal responsibility did not exist.

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Healthcare is an Unprincipled Non-System.

Deane Waldman | Posted 10.22.2009 | Politics

Read More: Vision, Bill of Rights, Healthcare System, Healthcare Financing, Obamacare, Medical Negligence, Healthcare Regulations, Personal Responsibility, Declaration of Independence, Obama Healthcare, ARRA 2009, hr3200, Problem Solving, Principles, Single Payer, Aahca, Universal Health Care, Electronic Medical Records, Health Care Is a Right, Strategy, Mission, Medical Malpractice, Medical Errors, Evidence Based Decision Making, Healthcare, Root Cause Analysis, Hipaa, Adverse Medical Outcomes, America’s Affordable Health Choices Act, Systems Thinking, Medical Costs, Health Care Reform, Health Insurance, Health Information Technology, Politics News

Everyone knows that you cannot cure a sick anything -- patient or system - without a correct diagnosis. What is the diagnosis for sick, "broken" healthcare?

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They Are Still Practicing Bad Medicine -- on Medicine (and Therefore on Us).

Deane Waldman | Posted 09.24.2009 | Living

Read More: Health Care Is a Right, Healthcare System, Medical Malpractice, Healthcare Financing, Obamacare, Evidence Based Decision Making, Medical Negligence, Medical Errors, Healthcare, Root Cause Analysis, Healthcare Regulations, Personal Responsibility, Obama Healthcare, Hipaa, ARRA 2009, Adverse Medical Outcomes, America’s Affordable Health Choices Act, Medical Costs, Systems Thinking, Problem Solving, Single Payer, Health Insurance, Health Care Reform, Aahca, Universal Health Care, Health Information Technology, Electronic Medical Records, Living News

Given a fundamentally flawed, unsupportable health care system, we need a new one rather than changing where some dollars flow and adding new dollars that we don't have in the first place.

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ObamaCare Is Not "a Good Start." They Are Blowing an Opportunity to fix Health care.

Deane Waldman | Posted 09.24.2009 | Politics

We need an extended, all-media national dialogue, not violent, partisan town hall meetings in response to a Plan devised behind closed doors.

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Seeing Through the Food Industry's "Personal Responsibility" Smoke Screen

Rob Smart | Posted 09.11.2009 | Green

Read More: Consumer Food Expenditures, Retail, Conventional Food, Personal Responsibility, Family, Cooking, Food, Food Retail, Community, Home Cooking, Business, Innovation, Food Preparation, Triple Bottom Line, Pro Food, Eating, Industrial Food, Sustainable, Supermarkets, Food Marketing, Local, Consumers, Real Food, Grocery Prices, Walmart, Unhealthy Food, Food Politics, Cheap Groceries, Healthy Food, Healthy Eating, Cargill, General Mills, Food Policy, Family-Meal-Time, Healthy Eating Habits, Grocery Shopping, Family Meals, Unhealthy Eating, Local Food, The-Food-Revolution, Grocery Stores, Green News

"Personal responsibility" is used as a smoke screen to cover the tracks of industrial food, tracks that run roughshod over the mirage of choice and personal responsibility.

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A Practicing Doctor's Prescription for Health Care Reform

Dr. Jordan Shlain | Posted 09.05.2009 | Home

Read More: Personal Responsibility, Big Pharma, Personal Health, Health, Civic Duty, Health Care Reform, Insurance Companies, Health Care System, Health Care, Joe Diabetic, Home News

The government has no problem regulating Wall Street, nuclear energy, the health care system and the legal system. Where are the regulations for maintaining personal health?

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Government Cuts Expenditures -- Only We Can Cut Costs

Deane Waldman | Posted 08.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Is a Right, Healthcare System, Medical Malpractice, Healthcare Financing, Evidence Based Decision Making, Medical Negligence, Medical Errors, Healthcare, Root Cause Analysis, Healthcare Regulations, Personal Responsibility, Obama Healthcare, Hipaa, ARRA 2009, Adverse Medical Outcomes, America’s Affordable Health Choices Act, Medical Costs, Systems Thinking, Problem Solving, Health Insurance, Health Care Reform, Universal Health Care, Health Information Technology, Electronic Medical Records, Politics News

Without a totally new health care system, cutting health care costs means reducing usage -- rationing. You have to decide just one thing: who will be the rationer?

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The Personal Responsibilty to End Racial Profiling

Mark Thompson | Posted 08.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: Personal Responsibility, Obama Racial Speech, Obama Beer, Obama NAACP, James Crowley, Henry Louis Gates, Naacp Centennial, Barack Obama, Racial Profiling, Naacp, Politics News

The "personal responsibility" argument suggests that there is some inherent pathology within African Americans that is disabling. The word plays well politically among moderate and conservative Whites.

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Do We Have Inalienable Responsibilities to One Another?

Amitai Etzioni | Posted 08.23.2009 | Living

Read More: Personal Responsibility, Responsibility, Children, Social Responsibility, Raising Children, Families, Advice, Family, Living News

Family is more than chicken soup.

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Do You Have a "Right" to an Oil Change?

Deane Waldman | Posted 08.08.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Is a Right, Healthcare System, Medical Malpractice, Healthcare Financing, Evidence Based Decision Making, Medical Negligence, Medical Errors, Healthcare, Root Cause Analysis, Healthcare Regulations, Personal Responsibility, Obama Healthcare, Hipaa, Adverse Medical Outcomes, Medical Costs, Systems Thinking, Problem Solving, Health Insurance, Health Care Reform, Universal Health Care, Health Information Technology, Electronic Medical Records, Politics News

Can you have a "right to health care" without any responsibility: both by paying for it and by being an active partner in it?

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Chrysler & GM: What Happens if Your Car Blows Up?

Don McNay | Posted 07.04.2009 | Business

Read More: Injury Victims, Trial Lawyers, Ford Pinto, American Bar Association, Uaw, Toyota, Bankruptcy, Tort Reform, Chrysler, GM Bankruptcy, Honda, Bailouts, Kentucky, Don McNay, Ford, Buick, Structured Settlements, American Association for Justice, Insurance, General Motors, Product Liability, Richmond Ky, Hyundai, Traumatic Brain Injury, Lexington KY, Aaa, Detroit Bailout, Detroit, Aaj, Personal Responsibility, Auto Bailout, Personal Finance, Business News

I know I'll never forget that horrible sight, I guess I found out for myself that everyone was right. Won't come back from Dead Man's Curve. -Jan a...

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Health Care: Scientific or Rational?

Kim Evans | Posted 05.26.2009 | Living

It's time we started thinking about things differently. If a reliance on proven demonstrated science has gotten us exactly to where we are now, perhaps a shift of focus to rational is the best move we can make.

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Harry Potter's Five Steps to Courage

Tom Morris | Posted 05.21.2009 | Living

Read More: Personal Responsibility, Economic Downturn, Harry Potter, Stock Market Crash, Stocks Down, Courage, New York Stock Exchange, Stock Market, Economic Crisis, Unemployment, Job Cuts, Living News

Who would have guessed that the world's most popular fictional wizard could teach us all a thing or two, or five, about courage, change, and dealing with daunting challenge?

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The Murder Of Kitty Genovese

Linda Milazzo | Posted 05.14.2009 | Politics

If Kitty's murder has prevented Bystander Effect or Diffusion of Responsibility in those who were offended by the human failings that resulted in her death, then she was was a hero.

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