Dead Horse
January 25th, 2012 by Mike Clough
From the Times Best of the Blogs 2011
A note of advice to the G20 leaders:
The tribal wisdom of the Dakota Indians, passed on from generation to generation says that: ‘when you discover you are riding a dead horse, best strategy to dismount.’
However…..In Government more advanced strategies are often employed, such as:
- Buying a stronger whip
- Changing riders
- Appointing a committee to study the horse
- Arranging a visit to other countries to see how other cultures ride dead horses
- Lowering the standards so that dead horses can be included
- Reclassifying the dead 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 dead horses performance
- Doing a productivity study to see if lighter riders would increase horses performance
- 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
- Rewriting the performance expectations for all horses
- Promoting the dead horse to a supervisory position.
Sorry – just had to share this.
Mike C
