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Queen visits Jamestown Virginia

Approximately around 4 pm on May the 3rdthey have to write down the bull so they
the Queen of England arrived indon't forget it. She also went to
Jamestown Virginia to join theVirginia Tech. where some guy went crazy
celebration of our 400th anniversary.and killed 33 people and wounded others,
She did not have to worry about fillingto give a speech and express her sadness
up the gas tank with fuel, as shefor those who were lost.
arrived in town in a carriage pulled byTo some people this article might seem a
horses. Sounds like a great way we couldlittle disrespectful to the Queen but I
cut our fuel cost in the U.S. by makingcan not understand why we fought so hard
our public officials do the same thing.to get our freedom from them, and then
Think that is funny, well they are yourspend millions of dollars to come visit.
public servants you know. You are theThey never pay Busch to go anywhere, in
ones' that excel them to some kind offact when he does go somewhere it cost
higher level, but in my mind they arethe American tax payer millions he gives
servants.away.
On Thursday there were not very manyThe Queen is suppose to stay with us for
people out to greet the Queen because6 days and then 2 days with the
the secret service and probably everPresident In Washington, I will not be
state trope in Virginia had heron the road when she decides to leave
surrounded and made most of the publictown because it will cost a fortune in
uncomfortable. Nothing like having weirdgasoline to get anywhere between
people watching your every move andWilliamsburg and Washington when they
making you feel that if you make theleave..
wrong move you are going to get jumpedWell the Queen is off to the Kentucky
on.Derby which was one of the main reasons
It only cost the state 11 millionshe came over to the U.S. This has long
dollars to get her to visit, and I ambeen a dream of hers to attend one of
not sure if that included the hundredsthese races and see the best race horses
of gallons of fuel the police and secretin the world compete. One of her hobbies
service used to get here.is breading and raising thoroughbred
At one of the local motels I must havehorses and riding them, can you believe
seen at least a hundred police carsit at over 8o years old she still rides
parked as they were inside being toldher horse once a week when she is at
what the procedure would be to guardhome. Most people don't even trust their
here.rocking chairs to ride at that age in
It would seem to me that Jamestown wouldthis country.
have gotten a bigger bang for its buckThe bottom line, was it worth the 11
if they would have invited the remainingmillion that the government spent to
contestants of American Idol There wouldhave the Queen of England go on vacation
have been limited security and probablyhere is the USA? I would have to say
millions of people come to see theirnay to that one. She really didn't even
favorite Idol. Although it would havestay two full days here, and then went
used more of our fuel and caused majorelsewhere for diversion. With all the
traffic jams but the area would haveproblems that the country is undergoing,
gotten the tourism they had hope for.like high fuel prices and trying to
I am not really sure why someone wouldfigure ways to save fuel, the
take off time from work, or use up theirimmigration issue, and the so called war
vacation time, or spend a lot of moneywhich will probably going to bankrupt
with the high cost of fuel to drive tothis country shortly, we could have used
Jamestown to see her, or read speechesit more wisely on problems that need to
someone else wrote? The people in ourbe address here in Jamestown.
government do the same thing because



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