Accountability

The Naive American might be surprised to learn that the most dreaded word in the USA is not an insult or a four-letter word; it’s “Accountability.”

Vocabulary-Vocabulary.com defines Accountability as:

To account for something is to take responsibility or to answer for something. When you are accountable for something, you must answer for it, account for it, or take responsibility for it.

We Americans must feel better, now that we have elected a new administration that will bring CHANGE to the USA.  CHANGE, however, is not the topic of this blog.  I would like to address Accountability in three ways to allow the Naive American to spend time pondering over the implications; this won’t be pretty.

As the new set of “career politicians” take control of the USA they need to realize they were elected because they made the Naive American believe they had intentions for CHANGE.  More importantly, these politicians also made most Americans believe they had realistic plans to make CHANGE happen.  Four to six years from now, we will see the results of the new administration’s promises.  At that time each and every elected official should be made accountable for their results.  I am going to defer what ACCOUNTABLE entails to a different post.  What we need to understand is that the USA is no longer in a position to continue to collapse due to premeditated actions by politicians.

Now we need to shift gears and take a look at all Americans and ask ourselves, “what if we were held accountable for our actions on a social level?”

Lets go over a few examples.  A judge, the members of the jury and the prosecuting attorneys find an innocent individual guilty.  You might be surprised how often this occurs.  In some cases the defendant has spent decades in prison for a crime he or she did not commit.  The individual is released from prison and hopefully, might get compensation from the city or state.  Nothing happens to the people responsible for sending an innocent person to prison.  They are not held ACCOUNTABLE for their actions.

Stockbrokers in Wall Street accidentally run into the overruled “bucket law”, mysteriously and magically passed in the final days of the Bill Clinton administration.  They were quickly able to amass hundreds of millions, and even billions of dollars.  The US economy collapses, then the stockbrokers and the career politicians that passed the bill into law have not been held ACCOUNTABLE.

Salaried employees with the typical 8:00 AM to 05:00 PM job usually take an hour off for lunch.  Many people claim to take less time during lunch so they can come late and leave early.  Avoidance of rush traffic hours is a pretty standard rationalization.  Eventually, people get used to arriving at work later, taking longer lunches and heading home earlier.  Keep in mind that most people “mentally” leave work an hour or so before the end of the day (checking the time, talking on their cell phones, chatting with coworkers, planning last minute activities and errands, etc.).  This is extremely common on Fridays any day before holidays.  Take a few minutes and add the number of minutes taken away from the workday.  Multiply them by the number of days in a year and by the number of employees in a company.  Last, but not least, multiply the time by the average salary (if such a thing exists).  The typical Naive American steals thousands of US dollars from their employers a year.

I love in a city home to a major commercial airline, it is also a hub.  Many planes congregate towards the end of the day to start services early morning.  The interiors of planes need to be vacuumed overnight.  Maintenance employees belong to a union.  Very often employees with seniority would go to sleep in the planes while the new recruits clean the planes.  Are those Naive American union workers held ACCOUNTABLE for their actions?

A lady I know started work at a new night job.  She was trained how to assemble different electrical assemblies and harnesses.  As a new employee the first day she had put together twenty harnesses during her eight hour shift.  At the end of her workday the supervisor shows up to inspect the work.  She was told not to stress or overwork herself.  A dozen harnesses of that type a day was all she had to do.  Innocently (naively) she mentioned that the job was simple and with additional practice she could easily put together a couple dozen units a day.  The union supervisor told her not to.  As most Naive Americans know, labor is one of the largest contributors to the end price of goods.  Should anyone be held ACCOUNTABLE for this situation?

The Naive American should realize we cannot just blame others for the issues in our country and our lives.  Our country, economy and society are collapsing and we all need to make changes before it is too late!