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"I KNOW, I'M BEATING A DEAD HORSE"

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Anonymous Matt said...

Eddie and his friends do what they want on the tax payers dime. They hide what they can, they fire anyone that finds out or disagrees with them, they spin the info when the media finds out and they make excuses or have pep-rallies declaring innocence when outright caught.

Eddie is a great example of absolute power corrupting absolutely. City council needs to grow a pair and move the power back to the council so this doesn't happen again with our next Mayor. How can we expect any honesty from our department heads, like Chief Roberts, when their employment relies solely on what Eddie decides?

Just like an alcoholic who wants to recover, the first step to change is admitting you have a problem. Unfortunately Hartford's leadership can't even have honest open dialogs about the issues plaguing Hartford due to Eddie controlling everyone out of fear of termination.

October 28, 2009 at 4:54 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

hartford is a hellhole...what do you expect?

October 29, 2009 at 10:20 PM

Anonymous Lew said...

Dakota tribal wisdom says that when you discover you are riding a dead horse, the best strategy is to dismount. However, Hartford's government often tries other strategies with dead horses, including the following:

1. Appointing a committee to study the horse.
2. Fire the horse and rehire it as a contractor.
3. Say things like, "This is the way we have always ridden this horse."
4. Have subordinates declaring that "This horse is not dead."
5. Arranging travel to visit other sites to see how they ride dead horses.
6. Increasing the standards to ride dead horses.
7. Appointing friends to revive the dead horse.
8. Creating a training session to increase our riding ability.
9. Comparing the state of dead horses in todays environment.
10. Buying a stronger whip.
11. Hire contractors to ride the dead horse.
12. Harnessing several dead horses together for increased speed.
13. Declaring that "No horse is too dead to beat."
14. Providing additional funding to increase the horse's performance.
15. Do a Cost Analysis study to see if contractors can ride it cheaper.
16. Purchase a computer program to make dead horses run faster.
17. Declare the horse is "better, faster and cheaper" dead.
18. Form a advisory comittee to find uses for dead horses.
19. Revisit the performance requirements for horses.
20. Say this horse was procured with cost as an independent variable.
21. Promote the dead horse to a supervisory position.

October 31, 2009 at 4:58 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

As usual you just shoot from the hip without looking at the facts...."why not hire one instructor?" instead of sending employees to Florida. I believe they attended numerous classes that would require a number of instructors who would be paid a daily rate as well as all of their expenses. Would it be cheaper? I don't know and neither do you.

November 4, 2009 at 12:39 PM

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