Quote Originally Posted by ahabion View Post
If you care about the homeless or Children's Healthcare of Atlanta, then donate and do it. Want your kids to have a better education then pay for it. If you want to see the economy pick up, then you need to make a budget for yourself and tell everyone you know to make a budget. When everyone starts 'fixing themselves' that is when the economy will come back. The Top-Down mentality of the government fixing the economy is just plain stupid and it doesn't work.

Bottom line: Put your money where your mouth is. When everyone does this, you create a thriving community/county/state/country.
That's called personal responsibility/accountability, a concept which sadly most of this country has no knowledge or understanding of.