Riding a Dead Horse
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.

In modern education and government, however, a whole range of far more advanced strategies are often employed, such as:

1. Buying a stronger whip.

2. Changing riders.

3. Threatening the horse with termination.

4. Appointing a committee to study the horse.

5. Visiting other sites to see how others ride dead horses.

6. Lowering the standards so that dead horses can be included.

7. Re-classifying the dead horse as “living, impaired”.

8. Hiring outside contractors to ride the dead horse.

9. Harnessing several dead horses together to increase the speed.

10. Attempting to mount multiple dead horses in hopes that one of them will spring to life.

11. Providing additional funding and/or training to increase the dead horse’s performance.

12. Doing a productivity study to see if lighter riders would improve the dead horse’s performance.

13. 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.

14. Re-writing the expected performance requirements for all horses.

15. Promoting the dead horse to a supervisory position.

Grizz

You take 3 groups of people Mexican,blacks,+ whites out to a jobsite indivdually + tell them to remove this tree. Now the Mexicans will hit it up one side + down the other reducing it to toothpicks in short order. The blacks will try to pull it up by brute strength. The whites will stand around looking at it + finally decide to form a commitee to discuss the feasability of building an axe.

Griz, were you or are you currently a federal employee? You seem to grasp that mentality very well. I am a retired USDA meat inspector and I kept wondering the whole time spent with them why did I want this job. Once you are in you usually are in for the long haul because nobody wants you after that, as you are considered tainted.