Does this sound familiar

The Dead Horse Theory outlines the bureaucratic details.

Here is the executive summary:

If it moves, tax it.
If it keeps moving, regulate it.
If it doesn't move, subsidize it.

-- Ronald Reagan



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 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 "fact-finding" visits to several 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 in an attempt to increase speed.

9. Providing additional funding and/or training to increase dead horse's
performance.

10. Contracting out an expensive 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.


--
All successful people have one thing in common, if even for a moment
they think rationally.