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Date: 2006-05-19 02:07 pm (UTC)When I'm at the DMV, they have TRANSLATORS to take their tests because they can't read the street signs and frnakly that scares me. They have tests in multiple languages. People who do not speak English well do not progress in society.
Making English the official language makes sense to me. Beaureaucratic expenses will be reduced and the playing field will be just a bit more level.
Also, let me put it to you this way, since you liked to say something in Spanish, do you think Mexico has dual language forms? I can tell you for a fact they don't (at least as of the last time I was in Mexico). If you were to move to France do you think they would provide you with dual language forms? No, you have to learn French.
And for the comment about being unable to speak their native language in their own homes, well, at the risk of being offensive, that's stupid and alarmist.
But then again, I wouldn't expect anyone who has such blind hatred for Bush and Congress to step back and actually look at this objectively.
As for me, I'm all for it.