House Page program ends after nearly 200 years

They will reach across the isle.

The Viking wrote: 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!

Do you really think anyone in congress thinks 5 mil is even real money. Dollars to donuts they are doing it to head off another scandal.

Martin Ent Inc wrote: They will reach across the isle.

yeah right..We prefer women, but don't believe me- Listen to the pages themselves-They say every republican in DC is a chicken hawk closet queen..

http://www.hbo.com/documentaries/outrage/index.html

Like Barney Frank.

And CO's Chair of the dem party Rick Palacio

Kate wrote: But the savings could buy 5 cruise missles!

If Obama wasn't shooting so many of them off in Libya they wouldn't need to be replaced in the inventory.

About time they ended the program, just like the post office, they have outlived their usefullness. NPR says they really didn't have anything to do once e-mail started.

If youth wanted to get involved in politics, there is always some election campaign going on. That is where I started working for Gary Hart in Iowa.

(Does that sentence make me look old?)

PrintSmith wrote:

Kate wrote: But the savings could buy 5 cruise missles!

If Obama wasn't shooting so many of them off in Libya they wouldn't need to be replaced in the inventory.

I'm sure Congress is happy the missiles are being used, at least the Congressmen/women on the Raytheon payroll.

Raytheon is one of the five largest defense contractors and has benefited from the military's increasing reliance on cruise missiles. Missile sales have also been paralleled by its lobbying effort. Raytheon, now the world's biggest producer of guided-missiles, spent just shy of $7 million on congressional lobbying in 2010, compared to $2.32 million a decade earlier, according to the Center for Responsive Politics' OpenSecrets.org.

Raytheon has liberally sprinkled campaign contributions across Congress, including more than $2.1 million in 2009-2010. The contributions were balanced between parties, with 53 percent going to Democrats and 46 percent to Republican candidates, according to OpenSecrets.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/03/2 ... 40365.html

Vice Lord wrote:

Martin Ent Inc wrote: They will reach across the isle.

yeah right..We prefer women, but don't believe me- Listen to the pages themselves-They say every republican in DC is a chicken hawk closet queen..

http://www.hbo.com/documentaries/outrage/index.html

Not a very tolerant man are you? Underage sex with girls is OK, but not underage homosexual sex? You are a man after Teddy Kennedy's heart.

SS109 wrote:

Vice Lord wrote:

Martin Ent Inc wrote: They will reach across the isle.

yeah right..We prefer women, but don't believe me- Listen to the pages themselves-They say every republican in DC is a chicken hawk closet queen..

http://www.hbo.com/documentaries/outrage/index.html

Not a very tolerant man are you? Underage sex with girls is OK, but not underage homosexual sex? You are a man after Teddy Kennedy's heart.

Mary Jo Kopechne was as a full grown woman.