I personally found this to be not only humorous but in so many cases to be so profoundly true.
This is from a letter to the editor in our paper today from the tribal wisdom of the Dakota Indians passed on from generation to generation. Just seems to fit exactly how so much of our government works.
“When riding a dead horse, the best strategy is to dismount”
In Modern Government however, a whole range of far more advanced strategies are often employed such as:
Buying a stronger whip.
Changing riders.
Threatening the horse with termination
Appointing a committee to study the horse.
Arranging to visit other countries to see how others ride dead horses.
Lowering the standards so that the dead horse can be included.
Reclassifying the horse as “living impaired’.
Hiring outside contractors to ride the dead horse.
Harnessing several dead horses together to increase speed.
Providing additional funding and/or training to increase the dead horse’s performance.
Doing a productive study to see if lighter riders would improve the dead horse’s performance.
Declaring that the dead horse does not have to beefed; it is less costly, carries the lowest overhead, there-fore contributes more to the bottom line of the economy than do some other horses.
Re-writing the expected performance requirements for all horses.
Promoting the dead horse to a supervisory position.
Isn’t it strange that we see evidence of attempts at all or most all of these strategies in our local, state and federal governments. And even stranger how poorly they have worked out. Somehow the dead horses stay dead, and the outcome does not get any better. Maybe we should be looking at who we elect and many times over and over again.
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