Wisdom.............

[gardnmom]

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. Arranging to visit other countries 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. Providing additional funding and/or training to

increase the dead horse's performance.

11. Doing a productivity study to see if lighter

riders would improve the dead horse's performance.

12. 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.

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

14. Promoting the dead horse to a supervisory position.

[This message has been edited by Lois (edited November 13, 2002).]

[Deblyn]

That's funny (peculiar, not ha-ha!) we have horses like that in the UK.

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[Guest Guest]

ooooh - so true. Can I pass that out at a meeting I'm going to Lois - there'll be a lot there who don't agree that when you've dug yourself into a hole you should just stop digging and I couldn't put it better than this

Thank you

[gardnmom]

I don't know where it came from originaly

I got it from another site where they said they didn't know where it originated either..

as far as I am concerened, use it.

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Friends are quiet angels who lift us to our feet when

our wings have trouble remembering how to fly.

[Guest Guest]

LOL THAT Says it all! Thanks for sharing!

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[Guest Guest]

Funny! Sad...but true!

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Give thanks to the Lord for He is good, and His love endures forever!

[logcabinmama]

Thank you Lois for sharing this with us.

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[Guest Guest]

Lois

I saw that long ago. If memory serves me corrrectly it was taken from a politial type book. Concerning the status of our country.

Anyway still fits the status today. Its a product of the public fool system if you ask me. Im not saying that the teachers are bad in our schools its are politions and school administrators that make the policies that dumb down our kids to the point that they really cant think for themselves. Or when they find one that does and can they attempt everything in thieer power to make it so the kid wont. Its not good to have educated self thinking slaves. Well at least not good to those who are trying to keep the slaves enslaved.

Sen

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