The  tribal wisdom of the Plains 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."





However,  in government more advanced strategies are often employed, 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

cods, nice, your work here is done 

http://thewesterner.blogspot.com.au/2013/09/tribal-wisdom-of-plains-indians.html

Very funny!!!