Many of you by now have  already heard of Joe Biden’s hotel bill in London of $459,388 for one stay.

Our president has routinely gone out golfing with Tiger at about $750,000 per trip on Air Force One. The president’s family couldn’t go together on a Hawaii vacation so they spent about a million dollars per trip on Air Force One. 

They must think they are royalty to willy nilly spend taxpayer money.

I encourage everyone to read their tax evaluations and call the supervisor. They state they revisit values every year and revisit properties every five years. This is rarely the case.

My property was overvalued $90,000, which led to an unjust confiscation/seizure of another $800 per year of my hard-earned assets. We all should call the county and ask them to reduce our taxes as we are getting a negative return on our investment.

Property taxes are the most immoral of all taxes as the county is charging me rent for the use of my own personal property.

Jason Baca,

Vote no to government control, interference

As union membership has fallen all across the country, unions have become increasingly aggressive in trying to grow its numbers. In Minnesota and across the country they have turned to organizing recipients of government benefits as their latest ploy to increase their coffers.

HF950\SF778 sponsored by Rep. Michael Nelson and Sen. Sandy Pappas would do just that – attempt to unionize small business daycare providers in Minnesota.

Energy Return on Energy Invested (ERoEI) shapes our lives. ERoEI says it takes energy — mining, drilling, refining, transporting — to make energy.

“The EROI for oil in the U.S. during the heydays of oil development in Texas, Oklahoma and Louisiana in the 1930s was about 100 returned for one invested ... declining to about 20:1 in the first half decade of the 2000s.” (http://netenergy.theoildrum.com/node/6318?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+theoildrum+%28The+O...).