Government Theory - Not at all political

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, 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.

If you don't understand this theory, you haven't lived long enough.

How true, how true.....!

True True.

Right on brother.....

In America we have some additional corporate strategies

14: Spend tons marketing dollars directed at gullible consumers, pass those costs onto same consumers and shareholders and then give the CEO a Dead Horse bonus

15: Lobby the government for “Dead Horse” subsidies (and pass the costs onto consumers and shareholders and then give the CEO a Dead Horse bonus)

16: Acquire all livestock from competitors or start-up breeders of live horses, kill the horses. (Raise costs for consumers and then give the CEO a Dead Horse bonus)

17: Blame Unions and workers for poor productivity – and still give CEO a Dead Horse bonus

18: Blame Gay Marriage for destroying family values and work ethic – still give CEO a Dead Horse bonus

19: Blame Abortion for shrinking future workforce – give CEO a Dead Horse bonus

20: Blame Brown People, no reason necessary - give CEO a Dead Horse bonus

21: After using 17- 20 to malign local workforce, justify outsourcing labor to another country (preferably cheap child labor) – CEO gets a Bonus

22: Knowingly sell dead horses to people that can least afford them, label these same customers as “deadbeats,” and demand the government bail you out when customers can’t pay. Foreclose on Dead Horses, horde 2 trillion dead horses and give CEO bonus.

21: Create a hedge fund betting against dead horses, make a pile of money, take advantage of tax loophole and save yourself 4 billion dollars a year

22: Create a tranche of mostly dead horses, throw in a few live horses, tell your investors it consists of mostly live horses, hedge position against your own investors, make millions – give CEO a Dead Horse bonus

23: Buy off the dumbest, most clueless politicians (or most cynical) you can find, get them to do your bidding – pass costs onto consumers and shareholders, give CEO a Dead Horse bonus

24: Install inept, corrupt Pro-Business ideologues on state and federal courts to rule in your favor- pass costs onto consumers and shareholders, give the CEO a Dead Horse bonus

25: Insist only you can create more dead horse jobs here at home, continue to offshore dead horse jobs and declare yourself Master of the Universe. BONUS!

26:...waste time reading horses ass's screed.........

Don't you guys have anything better to do with your time? Buy a slinky or something.....

What do you do when you can't get off the dead horse before it hits the ground?:S

27. Corner the market in dead horse futures.

I don't write this stuff, I just read it

http://pss.sagepub.com/content/23/2/187

Bright Minds and Dark Attitudes
Lower Cognitive Ability Predicts Greater Prejudice Through Right-Wing Ideology and Low Intergroup Contact

Abstract
Despite their important implications for interpersonal behaviors and relations, cognitive abilities have been largely ignored as explanations of prejudice. We proposed and tested mediation models in which lower cognitive ability predicts greater prejudice, an effect mediated through the endorsement of right-wing ideologies (social conservatism, right-wing authoritarianism) and low levels of contact with out-groups. In an analysis of two large-scale, nationally representative United Kingdom data sets (N = 15,874), we found that lower general intelligence (g) in childhood predicts greater racism in adulthood, and this effect was largely mediated via conservative ideology. A secondary analysis of a U.S. data set confirmed a predictive effect of poor abstract-reasoning skills on antihomosexual prejudice, a relation partially mediated by both authoritarianism and low levels of intergroup contact. All analyses controlled for education and socioeconomic status. Our results suggest that cognitive abilities play a critical, albeit underappreciated, role in prejudice. Consequently, we recommend a heightened focus on cognitive ability in research on prejudice and a better integration of cognitive ability into prejudice models.