I want to commend and congratulate the Republicans in the California Legislature for holding the Democrats’ feet to the fire and finally getting rid of that 12-cent hike in gasoline taxes that they were proposing.

Even a lot of Democrats will be thankful when they fill up but not to worry, gas always goes up anyway as we approach summer. Truckers are probably most thankful because filling a 500-gallon tank will at least be $60 less.

We will be paying enough as it is with this large spendulous bill that the president just signed, and he even spent a lot of unnecessary taxpayer money to do that. He flew in Air Force 1 from Washington, D.C., to Denver just to sign the bill. Do you know how much it costs just to get one of those giant Boeing 747s off the ground? I don’t either but I know it is a lot. In fact, you can double it because Vice President Joe Biden flew Air Force 2 to Denver and he didn’t do anything but watch. They could have saved thousands and thousands of dollars to have signed that bill in Washington but they had to make a big political show.

I think Obama’s honeymoon is about over. The markets are still tanking, they don’t think much of his stimulus bill and his approval rating fell another five points in a week.

But I do hope that bill does help some, because our children and grandchildren will still be paying for it long after we are gone.

Frank Bradford,
Madera

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