Check out our brand new Local Poker Communities! Get updates and interact with poker players in your area.
Visit the United States Poker Community | Visit the California Poker Community | Read more about the Launch of P5s Local

US House to end 180-year-old 'page' program " Help the math Don't add up to me"

Reply to Thread
  1. Jokerluelz Jokerluelz is offline

    Posts: 2,958
    Joined: Apr 07

    Aug 8th, 2011 (8/8/2011 11:05pm)

    Bringing the curtain down on a nearly 200-year-old tradition, leaders of the US House of Representatives announced Monday that they were doing away with the chamber's "page" program.The lawmakers cited an independent study that highlighted how messages that pages once ferried around the vast US Capitol grounds now zoom among offices electronically and found that the annual cost to operate the program has topped $5 million, not including all expenses tied to the page dormitory and school.

    Each page costs between $69,000 and $80,000 per school year to taxpayers

    In modern Congresses, there have been about 70 House pages, each of whom earns a monthly gross salary of $1,804.83, from which taxes and a 35 percent room and board fee are deducted, according to the program's official website

    I don't get this math ? they made 21,657.96 a year with taxes and Room and Board were taken Out .. Where the hell is the rest of the 69k to 80K tax payers payed for ? And why the hell is this something we the tax payers have been paying for ? Did we vote for something like this or did the government just decided this is what they wanted to do and DID it ?

    http://news.yahoo.com/us-house-end-1...195039742.html
  2. krispycream krispycream is offline

    PA
    United States

    Posts: 813
    Joined: Sep 07

    Aug 8th, 2011 (8/8/2011 11:18pm) in reply to Jokerluelz

    "House pages -- who roam the halls of the US Congress in their trademark navy blue blazer, grey slacks or skirt, black shoes and necktie -- must be at least 16, not more than 17, make good grades and have to be sponsored by a sitting member of the US Congress, according to the program's website."


    them young bitches gonna get raped
  3. norcaljeff norcaljeff is offline 2010 OT Thread Kill Leader

    San Francisco, CA
    United States

    Posts: 36,709
    Joined: Sep 07

    Aug 8th, 2011 (8/8/2011 11:21pm) in reply to krispycream

    the dudes, too.
  4. krispycream krispycream is offline

    PA
    United States

    Posts: 813
    Joined: Sep 07

    Aug 8th, 2011 (8/8/2011 11:23pm) in reply to norcaljeff

    hide yo dudes. hide yo young bitches.
  5. BulldogCafe BulldogCafe is offline

    Amsterdam
    Netherlands

    Posts: 1,621
    Joined: Dec 07

    Aug 8th, 2011 (8/8/2011 11:26pm) in reply to krispycream

  6. niptuck niptuck is offline

    United States

    Posts: 3,422
    Joined: Mar 05

    Aug 8th, 2011 (8/8/2011 11:29pm) in reply to BulldogCafe

    When marking his place in a book or after a glass of wine......Barney Frank likes his pages bent over.
  7. Jokerluelz Jokerluelz is offline

    Posts: 2,958
    Joined: Apr 07

    Aug 9th, 2011 (8/9/2011 12:09am) in reply to krispycream

     
    Originally Posted by krispycream View Post


    Ok math Adds up now .. Thanks :)
    Thread Starter
Reply to Thread