Flogging a dead horse

[Falchoon]

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." 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 the 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 live
horses.

12. Rewriting the expected performance requirements for all horses.
And, of course...

13. Promoting the dead horse to a supervisory position.

[TrekRider]

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." 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 the 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 live
horses.

12. Rewriting the expected performance requirements for all horses.
And, of course...

13. Promoting the dead horse to a supervisory position.

The problem is the U.S. government has adopted those rules. The job of my agency gets done not because of management, it gets done in SPITE of management.

[jacob]

another technique u may not have thought of is having the horse listen to Death Metal,
but this only works in the case of the horse being a dead horse which is a persecuted people or organization, such as during the case of an FBI or CIA raid or such or whatever
(I wouldn't know exactly how this takes place, I just know Iraqi prisoners had to hear "Enter Sandman" or something by Metallica)
But, then again maybe this is a moot point. Do such horses exist?

Jacob