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, best strategy is to dismount ” .  

However, in government, more advanced strategies are often  used… 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 dead  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 do some other  horses.
12. Rewriting the expected performance requirements for  all horses.

And of course….

13. Promoting the dead  horse to a supervisory position.

If you don’t understand this  theory, you haven’t lived long enough.