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Responsibility Forum

 RESPONSIBILITY

 "I was taught to accept the mistakes I make. No one can take the blame for what I have done and trying to deny that fact will certainly not lessen the consequences of my actions."
Tina Jo Fowler, Valley Springs High School, Valley Springs, Arkansas
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 IRRESPONSIBILITY

 "We now live in [an] unrestrained world. Consequences are no longer thought of. To many [people], there is no comprehension of right and wrong. Ethics and morals have no bearing over anything. If people act irresponsibly they blame their actions on someone else. It is very scary to see when a person really stops to look at the situation."
Kris Johansen, Luck High School, Luck,, Wisconsin
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WHITE HAT
    NOMINEES

 "Kevin Feik, a firefighter, has made a job out of repairing bicycles. He repairs as many as he can every year for local kids whose parents can't afford to buy their kids bikes. Kevin gets the bikes from trash heaps and repairs and repaints them. He then gives the bikes to some child for Christmas..'"
Seth Portra, Froid High School, Froid, Montana
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TELL US WHAT
    YOU THINK

 We will solicit your ideas regarding a variety of issues in this forum. We will soon have software which will allow responses to be compared in numerous meaningful ways and viewed, at your option, in various graphs or other forms. For now, we invite you to take this poll using numbers to rank your choices. When we have a significant amount of input we will post poll results. We will post your name and city only if you give us permission to do so. Otherwise your submittal will be identified only by your state, gender and age with the hope of obtaining meaningful statistics from this exercise.
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DOLLAR
    STRETCHING
    TIPS

 Have young children color on paper bags or large sheets of plain white paper. Use this unique artwork to wrap gifts. This is more meaningful to grandparents and other relatives than expensive store bought wrapping paper.
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FINANCIAL
    PLANNING

 People constantly try to purchase stocks when the market is low and sell at the high point. It sounds so easy to invest in aggressive funds during runaway markets and switch back to conservative holdings in trading markets. Unfortunately statistics have shown that market-timing just doesn't work overall. The same skill is required to pick the hot slot machine and cold blackjack table in Las Vegas.
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