[Rhodes22-list] dead horses

[brad haslett]

Anybody see any parallels here?

The tribal wisdom of the Dakota Indians, passed on
from generation to generation, says that when you
discover that you are riding a dead horse,the best
strategy is to dismount.  In modern education and
government,however, a whole range of far more advanced
strategies are often employed,such as:

1.  Buying a stronger whip.
2.  Changing riders.
3.  Threatening the horse with termination.
4.  Appointing a committee to study the horse.
5.  Sending a delegation to other countries to see how
others ride dead
    horses.
6.  Lowering the standards so that dead horses can be
included.
7.  Re-classifying the dead horse as "living,
impaired".
8.  Hiring outside contractors to ride the dead horse.
9.  Harnessing several dead horses together to
increase the speed.
10. Providing additional funding and/or training to
increase the dead
    horse's performance.
11. Doing a productivity study to see if lighter
riders would improve
    the dead horse's performance.
12. Declaring that as the dead horse does not have to
be fed, it is
    less costly, carries lower overhead, and therefore
contributes
    substantially more to the bottom line of the
economy than do some
    other horses.
13. Re-writing the expected performance requirements
for all horses.
14. Promoting the dead horse to a supervisory
position.




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