Accountability - It's Not Just For Businesses

Merriam Webster's Online Dictionary defines ACCOUNTABILITY as "an obligation or willingness to accept responsibility or to account for one's actions".

Do you think Melissa Bean views accountability in the same manner? Businesses have to be accountable to their lenders, their employees, and to their vendors. Publicly held companies have to be accountable to their shareholders and investors, the SEC, and sadly other government organizations and czars.

Individuals have to be accountable to their families and friends, their lenders (mortgages, car loans, etc.), their bills, and their jobs. If individuals are in school, they are accountable to their teachers and families.

Who else are we accountable to? The biggest entity of all - the U.S. Government. If you don't pay your taxes, who comes knocking on your door? The IRS. If you don't fill out your census information, how many postcards and door knockers have you gotten and will you expect to get?

Who does Congress have to be accountable to when they make a poor vote or a series of poor votes and decisions? The U.S. Constitution states that the U.S. House of Representatives have newly elected members every 2 years. The U.S. Senate has newly elected members every 6 years, 1/3 of existing members are up for re-election every 2 years.

The way for Melissa Bean's constituents to hold her accountable is to vote her out in November. She refuses to hold her constituents' overwhelming desires and wishes ahead of her party's interests, so we MUST hold her accountable in November.

Why should We, The People, be held accountable to our obligations and to our government when Congress appears to not care whether they are held accountable to their constituents? Why should Melissa Bean be held to a lesser level of accountability than businesses and individuals?

The obvious and simple answer is that she should not. We MUST hold her accountable for her decisions, actions, and votes in November. We have an obligation to hold her accountable, ESPECIALLY since she does not see herself accountable to her constituents but instead to her party leadership.