Dakota tribal wisdom

[JesusA (imported)]

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."

However, in government, education, and in corporate America, 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 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 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

[MacTheWolf (imported)]

I wish to thank jesus for his knowledge of American Indians. He referred to these Indians as the Dakotas, the correct term for them. For decades Hollywood has mistakenly called them the Sioux. The Dakota, Lakota or Nakota nations spoke the Siouxan language but were mostly Dakota or Lakota.

BTW - they referred to themselves by the names of their individual bands: Minneconjou, Sans Arc, Santee, Oglala, Hunkpapa or Brule.

Thanks again jesus.

MacTheWolf