| Approximately around 4 pm on May the 3rd the | | | | same thing because they have to write down the bull |
| Queen of England arrived in Jamestown Virginia to join | | | | so they don't forget it. She also went to Virginia Tech. |
| the celebration of our 400th anniversary. She did not | | | | where some guy went crazy and killed 33 people and |
| have to worry about filling up the gas tank with fuel, as | | | | wounded others, to give a speech and express her |
| she arrived in town in a carriage pulled by horses. | | | | sadness for those who were lost. |
| Sounds like a great way we could cut our fuel cost in | | | | To some people this article might seem a little |
| the U.S. by making our public officials do the same | | | | disrespectful to the Queen but I can not understand |
| thing. Think that is funny, well they are your public | | | | why we fought so hard to get our freedom from |
| servants you know. You are the ones' that excel them | | | | them, and then spend millions of dollars to come visit. |
| to some kind of higher level, but in my mind they are | | | | They never pay Busch to go anywhere, in fact when |
| servants. | | | | he does go somewhere it cost the American tax |
| On Thursday there were not very many people out to | | | | payer millions he gives away. |
| greet the Queen because the secret service and | | | | The Queen is suppose to stay with us for 6 days and |
| probably ever state trope in Virginia had her | | | | then 2 days with the President In Washington, I will not |
| surrounded and made most of the public | | | | be on the road when she decides to leave town |
| uncomfortable. Nothing like having weird people | | | | because it will cost a fortune in gasoline to get |
| watching your every move and making you feel that if | | | | anywhere between Williamsburg and Washington |
| you make the wrong move you are going to get | | | | when they leave.. |
| jumped on. | | | | Well the Queen is off to the Kentucky Derby which |
| It only cost the state 11 million dollars to get her to visit, | | | | was one of the main reasons she came over to the |
| and I am not sure if that included the hundreds of | | | | U.S. This has long been a dream of hers to attend one |
| gallons of fuel the police and secret service used to | | | | of these races and see the best race horses in the |
| get here. | | | | world compete. One of her hobbies is breading and |
| At one of the local motels I must have seen at least a | | | | raising thoroughbred horses and riding them, can you |
| hundred police cars parked as they were inside being | | | | believe it at over 8o years old she still rides her horse |
| told what the procedure would be to guard here. | | | | once a week when she is at home. Most people don't |
| It would seem to me that Jamestown would have | | | | even trust their rocking chairs to ride at that age in this |
| gotten a bigger bang for its buck if they would have | | | | country. |
| invited the remaining contestants of American Idol | | | | The bottom line, was it worth the 11 million that the |
| There would have been limited security and probably | | | | government spent to have the Queen of England go |
| millions of people come to see their favorite Idol. | | | | on vacation here is the USA? I would have to say nay |
| Although it would have used more of our fuel and | | | | to that one. She really didn't even stay two full days |
| caused major traffic jams but the area would have | | | | here, and then went elsewhere for diversion. With all |
| gotten the tourism they had hope for. | | | | the problems that the country is undergoing, like high |
| I am not really sure why someone would take off time | | | | fuel prices and trying to figure ways to save fuel, the |
| from work, or use up their vacation time, or spend a lot | | | | immigration issue, and the so called war which will |
| of money with the high cost of fuel to drive to | | | | probably going to bankrupt this country shortly, we |
| Jamestown to see her, or read speeches someone | | | | could have used it more wisely on problems that need |
| else wrote? The people in our government do the | | | | to be address here in Jamestown. |