A nearly two-hundred year old tradition in the House of Representatives ended Monday with the termination of the U.S. House of Representatives Page Program.
High school juniors running around the Capitol wearing navy blazers and grey slacks and skirts were a regular sighting on Capitol Hill. The pages were there whenever the House was in session. They filled the elevators to maximum capacity, slammed the cafeteria in the basement all at the same time and wandered the marble halls in herds.
This is a really sad day. They spend trillions on crap and it does nothing but they have to cut a 200 year program that only cost $5 million dollars and helped so many learn about and become involved in our government. I know two people who were pages. They because very successful. The cuts our government does are so bass ackwards!
I have to say I applaud the end of sanctioned sexual abuse; at the same time it is a shame that such a program has come to an end. Had it been correctly administrated there is no reason young folks couldn't use being a page as a platform for a political career.
I can explain it to you but I can't understand it for you.
"Any man who thinks he can be happy and prosperous by letting the Government take care of him; better take a closer look at the American Indian." - Henry Ford
Corruptissima re publica plurimae leges; When the Republic is at its most corrupt the laws are most numerous. - Publius Cornelius Tacitus
The Viking wrote: This is a really sad day. They spend trillions on crap and it does nothing but they have to cut a 300 year program that only cost $5 million dollars and helped so many learn about and become involved in our government. I know two people who were pages. They because very successful. The cuts our government does are so bass ackwards!
The Viking wrote: This is a really sad day. They spend trillions on crap and it does nothing but they have to cut a 300 year program that only cost $5 million dollars and helped so many learn about and become involved in our government. I know two people who were pages. They because very successful. The cuts our government does are so bass ackwards!
I would think that fiscal conservatives would applaud this move. Every little bit helps, right? It's a program that is no longer really useful, as everything is pretty much done electronically now. Eliminate useless and wasteful programs - isn't that the conservative battle cry?
