responsibility

We often look for the answers (or approvals) for what we are supposed to do in life. But more significantly, we want to know how we can hold others accountable for their responsibilities and duties. Responsibility and blame go hand in hand. Who should we blame and hold responsible when things go wrong?

What government or business department is responsible for and should take action on...? With liability issues,who is responsible for and ought to cover the problem? What is the responsibility of business for environmental matters? Do corporations practice social responsibility? What is the responsibility of our schools to protect our children from violence and bullies? Is it my responsibility in this relationship to and must I...? Lists of responsibility are endless as are the blogs that go along with them.

When we want to know where to complain about something,we seek who is responsible to hold others accountable. To whom do they answer? We want somebody to be responsible. Hot lines, consumer info, and sites like the worst places to work provide us with a venting space to hold someone responsible for whatever has our attention and impacted us negatively.

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Latest blogosphere posts tagged “responsibility”

• We’re getting National Health Care, and we’re going to get it good and hard

  
  Liberty Maven Liberty Maven: For Liberty, One Individual At A Time — Authority: 536
  “Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.” – H. L. Mencken I’m tired of the health care debate. It’s not much of a debate anymore when the Republican lawmakers are arguing for socialism-lite and the Democrats are arguing for maximum strength ...
  3 hours ago

• South Africa, the fatherless country

  
  Thought Leader — Authority: 511
  Have you noticed that South Africa is father-free? Every time you hear a devastating news story about children who have died in a car accident/shack fire/hit and run/scary child stabbing incident the news reader feels that it imperative to note that “the child(ren)’s mother was not there at the time of the (insert ...
  8 hours ago

• A Squeeze on Customers Ahead of New Rules

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 915
  Senator Christopher J. Dodd at a hearing in September. He is pushing legislation that would freeze interest rates on existing balances until the new credit card law takes effect next year.
  10 hours ago

• So You Want to Reduce the Budget Deficit?

  
  EconomistMom.com — Authority: 513
  Have you ever thought you could be WAY more fiscally responsible than our politicians are?  Go ahead and test yourself on the Concord Coalition’s new online version of our “Principles and Priorities” exercise, now re-dubbed the “Federal Budget Challenge.” As was true with the old fashioned hard-copy ...
  12 hours ago

• Could You Survive Frontier House?

  
  Teaching Good Things — Authority: 126
    A while back we watched Frontier House, a PBS series about 3 families that go back in time to 1883 Montana. Most of the people in this series were not equipped skill wise to live off the grid and on the land.    I wish I could find a video clip of the teen daughters when they were interviewed at the end of ...
  12 hours ago

• Art fare for the common man

  
  On Bright Street — Authority: 128
  Today I was lucky model #48 for this great project by artist Steven Waggoner. More details about the experience tomorrow, but for now, how about an invitation to the opening reception thats happening in THREE DAYS? Please come and enjoy food and folks and, if youre so inclined, even take part in the silent auction ...
  12 hours ago

• Steaz, Please

  
  A blog by a politically left leaning mom of 2 boys — Authority: 417
  Ive been drinking. I recently got some samples of a new beverage hitting store shelves. While its not of the alcoholic ilk to fit right in with 5:00 Fridays, its a dandy drink nonetheless. And let me be clear here in the interest of disclosure: I got these samples for free, with no obligations to write a darn thing. ...
  14 hours ago

• SexEd Abstracts Due For SexTech Summit: Not Your Mother’s Media

  
  Shaping Youth — Authority: 120
  Nov. 8, 2009 One of our SexTech.org ‘top ten’ posts continues to be the Top Ten Teen SexEd videos created by students, for students in an effort to improve the lousy coverage of an inevitably touchy subject in schools. If you’re unfamiliar with Isis-Inc.org (Internet Sexuality Information ...
  14 hours ago

• Lomborg on Global Warming

  
  Mercia Rising — Authority: 114
  Mrs. Begum’s biggest challenge is not what the sea level may do in five or 10 decades. She has a more modest request: “It would be a heaven’s gift if a proper drainage system could be arranged in this area where all the drains are covered and do not overflow.” Getting basic sanitation and safe drinking water ...
  17 hours ago

• Discussion, not flaming torches, should drive teacher pay reform

  
  Liberty Maven Liberty Maven: For Liberty, One Individual At A Time — Authority: 536
  We live in a time when government is a form of theater; that is, it manages us by appearing to manage us. The current administration, perhaps because it came in with so much support, has broken new ground in what I’m calling Fantasy Government. It rails against health insurance companies, after giving them ...
  18 hours ago

• Claudia Schiffer and others commemorate children’s rights’ convention

  
  Lucire: Insider — Authority: 131
  The fall of the Berlin Wall is not the only 20th anniversary being celebrated this month. UNICEF’s Goodwill Ambassadors have recorded a series of PSAs to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), which takes place on November 20.    Supermodel Claudia Schiffer appears in ...
  18 hours ago

• Notes From New Orleans

  
  Earthkeepers — Authority: 116
  We’re pleased to offer these first updates from Timberland’s own Lynn Woodrum, one of two employees spending the week in New Orleans to help rebuild a community in need: Saturday, November 7 Lots of thoughts went through my head as I sat in airports today. What will the other people be like?  Will we all ...
  18 hours ago

• Our representative democracy at work-Maine’s got nothin on NYS

  
  rochesterturning.com — Authority: 529
  Anne Tischer just sent me this video of a town-hall with Senator Maziarz (operative syllable-arz).   He doesn’t even look at Anne when he “answers” her question.  This is what we’re up against.  His non-answer gets applause from the crowd. (H/T to Anne and Bess): I’m not going to write too much about ...
  19 hours ago

• LibertyWeek 68: Take from the Rich, Give to Yourself

  
  OpenMarket.org — Authority: 633
  Your host Richard Morrison teams up with Jeremy Lott and Josh Barro to bring you Episode 68 of the LibertyWeek podcast . We start with Saturday night’s healthcare vote in the House, Freddie Mac’s losing bets and a gift card scandal in Charm City. We then move on to Andrew Cuomo’s attack on Intel in New York and ...
  19 hours ago

• Placing Blame Doesn’t Get The Job Done

  
  MInTheGap — Authority: 116
  Last November I lost a job at a company at which I had been working since I graduated college.  Fortunately, I found a new job that I started right after that job ended.  I was assigned a project—my first project that I was to do almost by myself—that had been started in October and my bosses thought it was ...
  22 hours ago

• Massa and Kucinich, men of principles and integrity

  
  rochesterturning.com — Authority: 529
  ……….unlike the rest of the progressive caucus who voted in favor of this (piece of crap) bill . The progressives blinked. Only two, Reps. Dennis J. Kucinich (D-Ohio) and Eric Massa (D-N.Y.), lived up to the July pledge signed by roughly 60 liberals in which they vowed to vote against the bill if it did not ...
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• Suit Plans to Expose EPA’s Radiation Level Plan

  
  Appomattox Area News — Authority: 438
  Common radioactivity warning sign. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has not come clean on its plan to dramatically raise permissible radioactive release levels, according to a lawsuit filed in October by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER). The new draft standards have been promulgated ...
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• Talk about the client from hell

  
  RepMan — Authority: 121
  Howd you like the task of rehabilitating Joseph Stalins image and reputation? Well,  according to O’Dwyer’s, Russian Information Agency Novosti is searching for an international PR firm to do just that. According to the report, the goal is to re-position the Soviet despot who, some historians say, may ...
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• Yes America, its TERRORISM!

  
  Right Truth — Authority: 563
  U.S. intelligence agencies were aware months ago that Army Major NidalHasan was attempting to make contact with people associated with alQaeda , two American officials briefed on classified material in thecase told ABC News.  It is not known whether the intelligence agencies informed the Armythat one of its ...
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• Student Loan Jobs

  
  The Quick and the Ed — Authority: 592
  No matter it’s structure, it’s a widely accepted fact at this point that there are ways to reform the federal student loan programs in order to reduce costs. At this point then, the more salient issue becomes exactly what these reforms should look like and what additional goals should be considered during these ...
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