A friend sent this to me and although funny it unfortunately is the reality of what is happening in the Western World today. This is the civilised society we live in today and take for granted. We also pay dearly for all this waste of money it takes to achieve it.

“The Dead Horse Theory”

The tribal wisdom of the Plains Indians, passed on from generation to generation, says that, “When you discover yourself riding a dead horse, the best strategy is to dismount.”

In Pale Face government, however, more sophisticated strategies are employed to deal with such a situation, viz:

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 they ride dead horses.

5. Lowering standards, so that dead horses can be included.

6. Reclassifying the dead horse as ‘life-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 performance of dead horses.

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

11. Rewriting the performance requirements of horses generally.

12. Declaring that, as the dead horse does not need to be fed, it is less costly, carries lower overheads, and therefore contributes substantially more to the bottom line of the economy than do many other horses.

And, of course…

13. Promoting the dead horse to a supervisory position.