HORSES & GOVERNMENTS 
by Ray Hunt
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 and get a different horse."  
                     
However, our NEWLY FORMED MMP GOVERNMENT have

 come up with much more advanced strategies to overcome such a calamity. 

AS EACH PARTY HAS MADE ITS OWN CONTRIBUTION ALL HAVE

AGREED TO FOLLOW AND ABIDE BY THE FOLLOWINGS STEPS.

1. Buying a stronger whip.  (The Green Party recorded a vote against this)

2. Changing riders.  (The Alliance abstained from voting)
                                     
3. Appointing a committee to study the  horse. (Unanimously supported)

4. Arranging to visit other countries to see how other cultures
ride dead  horses.  (To be undertaken by Winston Peters)               

5. Lowering the standards so that dead horses can be included. (Labour policy)

6. Reclassifying the dead horse as living impaired. (Green Party policy)

7. Hiring outside contractors to ride the dead horse. (Act Party policy)

8. Harnessing several dead horses together to increase speed. (National policy)

9. Providing additional funding and/or training to increase
dead horse's performance.   (Labour Party Policy)
          
10. Doing a probin.gledroductivity study to see if lighter riders would
improve the dead horse's performance.  (United Future policy)           
                       
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.   (Maori Party policy)            

12. Rewriting the expected performance requirements for all
horses. (Act Party policy)
                        
          And of course.... 

13. Promoting the dead horse to a supervisory position. (NZ First policy)
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