Dead Horse Theory

[Judy Harder]

Dead Horse Theory

(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, best strategy is to dismount.)

However, in government more advanced strategies are often employed, such as:

1. Buying a stronger whip.

2. Changing riders.

3. Appointing a committee to study the horse.

4. Arranging "fact-finding" visits to several countries to see how other cultures ride dead horses.

5. Lowering the standards so that dead horses can be included.

6. Reclassifying the dead horse as living-impaired.

7. Hiring outside contractors to ride the dead horse.

8. Harnessing several dead horses together in an attempt to increase speed.

9. Providing additional funding and/or training to increase dead horse's performance.

10. Contracting out an expensive productivity study to see if lighter riders would improve the dead horse's performance.

11. 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.

12. Rewriting the expected performance requirements for all horses.

And of course....

13 Promoting the dead horse to a supervisory position.

If you don't understand this theory, you haven't lived long enough.
   

[Wilma]

There is a whole lot of truth in that as can be seen in some of the threads on this forum.

[Diane Amberg]

Uh oh! ...also attracts vultures!

[Judy Harder]