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The dead horse plan

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If you don't understand the government's economic plan, or any other government action that defies common sense, then you haven't been paying attention to current federal bureaucracies.


Now 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." Sorta makes sense, doesn't it? :roll:

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

1. Buying a stronger whip, or lengthen the whip.

2. Changing riders. Examine how the rider rode the horse. Perhaps he could face the other way and ride the horse backwards. Did the rider offend the horse by noting it's lack of performance standards, and create a polically sensitive situation that needs a government oversight commitee to study?

3. Appointing a committee to study the horse. Is it really dead? Or does it just appear to be dead? Could it just be in a state of suspended animation?
Does the horse have self esteem issues that need to be addressed?

4. Arranging to visit other countries to see how other cultures ride dead horses.

5. Lower the standards so that dead horses can be included and continue to receive equal protection under the law.

6. Reclassifying the dead horse as living-impaired. Perhaps the dead horse could be sent back to a committee for re-evaluation?

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. Pass new legislation to allow lower performance standards for dead horses.

And of course....

13. Promote the dead horse to a supervisory position, or better yet, elect them to congress, or the senate. :shock:
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You wouldn't be suggestion that we're flogging a dead horse, would you? :shock: :shock:
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Love it!
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How do we solve our country's illegal drug problems? Why just put the federal government in charge of smuggling and selling illegal drugs. :shock: In no time the whole system would come crashing down, and no one could make sense of it, or figure out what to do. Even hard core druggies would get so fed up with the system that most of them would just up and quit. :wink:

It's sorta' like getting kids to read more- just outlaw books for kids under the age of 17 and make libraries accessible only to 17+ year olds with parental permission. Then young kids will want to sneek in and try to steal a book, and they will be sneaking books out and selling bootleg books and paying older kids to teach them to read. :)

If we put the US government in charge of the Sahara desert, in a couple of years we would be out of sand. :D
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