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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."
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> >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 to visit other countries to see how other cultures ride
> >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 to increase speed.
> >
> >9. Providing additional funding and/or training to increase dead horse's
> >performance.
> >
> >10. Doing a 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 my favorite...........
> >
> >
> >13. Promoting the dead horse to a supervisory position
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