{"id":273,"date":"2016-12-27T06:27:26","date_gmt":"2016-12-27T06:27:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mathwise.net\/?p=273"},"modified":"2016-12-27T06:27:26","modified_gmt":"2016-12-27T06:27:26","slug":"tribal-wisdom-versus-government-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mathwise.net\/?p=273","title":{"rendered":"TRIBAL WISDOM VERSUS GOVERNMENT POLICY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>TRIBAL WISDOM VERSUS GOVERNMENT POLICY<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Dakota tribal wisdom says that when you discover you are riding a dead,<\/p>\n<p>the best strategy is to dismount. However, in government they often try other<\/p>\n<p>strategies with dead horses, including the following;<\/p>\n<p>Buying a bigger whip,<\/p>\n<p>Changing riders.<\/p>\n<p>Saying things- like &#8220;This is the way we always have ridden horse.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Appointing a committee to study the horse.<\/p>\n<p>Arranging to visit other sites to see how they ride dead horses.<\/p>\n<p>Increasing the standards to ride dead horses.<\/p>\n<p>Appointing a tiger team to revive the dead horse.<\/p>\n<p>Creating a training session to increase our riding ability.<\/p>\n<p>Passing legislation declaring that &#8220;This horse is not dead.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Blaming the horse&#8217;s parents.<\/p>\n<p>Harnessing several dead horses together for increased speed.<\/p>\n<p>Declaring that &#8220;No horse is too dead to beat.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Providing additional funding to increase the horse&#8217;s performance.<\/p>\n<p>Doing a cost analysis study to see if contractors can ride it cheaper.<\/p>\n<p>Declaring the horse is &#8220;better, faster and cheaper&#8221; dead.<\/p>\n<p>Forming a quality committee to find uses for dead horses.<\/p>\n<p>Revisiting the performance requirements for horses.<\/p>\n<p>Revisting the performance requirements for horses.<\/p>\n<p>Saying this horse was procured with cost as an independent variable.<\/p>\n<p>Blaming the horse farm on which it was born.<\/p>\n<p>Promoting the dead horse to a supervisory position.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TRIBAL WISDOM VERSUS GOVERNMENT POLICY Dakota tribal wisdom says that when you discover you are riding a dead, the best strategy is to dismount. However, in government they often try other strategies with dead horses, including the following; Buying a bigger whip, Changing riders. Saying things- like &#8220;This is the way we always have ridden &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/mathwise.net\/?p=273\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">TRIBAL WISDOM VERSUS GOVERNMENT POLICY<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mathwise.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mathwise.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mathwise.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mathwise.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mathwise.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=273"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/mathwise.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":274,"href":"http:\/\/mathwise.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273\/revisions\/274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mathwise.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mathwise.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mathwise.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}