China vs America

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Originally Posted by Seakony

does this sound familiar?

A Chinese company and an American company decided to have a canoe race on
the Mississippi River. Both teams practiced long and hard to reach their
peak performance before the race.

On the big day, the Chinese won by a mile. The Americans, very discouraged
and depressed, decided to investigate the reason for the crushing defeat.

A management team made up of senior management was formed to investigate
and recommend appropriate action. Their conclusion was that the Chinese had
8 people rowing and 1 person steering, while the American team had 8
people steering and 1 person rowing.

So American management hired a consulting company and paid them a large
amount of money for a second opinion. They advised that too many people
were steering the boat, while not enough people were rowing.

To prevent another loss to the Chinese, the rowing team's management
structure was totally reorganized to 4 steering supervisors, 3 area
steering superintendents and 1 assistant superintendent steering manager.

They also implemented a new performance system that would give the 1 person
rowing the boat greater incentive to work harder.

It was called the "Rowing Team Quality First Program", with meetings,
dinners and free pens for the rower.

There was discussion of getting new paddles, canoes and other equipment,
extra vacation days for practices and bonuses.

The next year the Chinese won by two miles. Humiliated, the American
management laid off the rower for poor performance, halted development of a
new canoe, sold the paddles, and canceled all capital investments for new
equipment.

The money saved was distributed to the Senior Executives as bonuses and
the next year's racing team was outsourced to India.

So what affiliation actually initiated the investigations, the AFL- CIO or the ACLU?

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Originally Posted by jtm1631

And I think all governments are a means to pacify the masses, .

that's pretty much correct, except it is far more difficult for the countries that allow freedom of speech, assembly, and press..........and damn, you really did do alot of reading on the boat didn't you?