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Originally Posted by Wagner
...if the US goes bilingual, I wouldn't want it to be spanish. No offense but what does that gain you in the business world? I can landscape my own yard 
And while I do think it should be deemed the official language of the United States, I wonder if it wasn't done in over 200 years...why start now? We've had FAR more foreign immigrants come in then just Spanish speakers.
*- the above commentary was a joke, a gag, something to make you chuckle. |
This debate had been around since the 1760's when Benjamin Franklin circulated pamphlets in then Colonial Pennsylvania pushing a referendum requiring Germans to learn and speak English. The Germans made up a significant portion of the population and many street signs and publications were popping up in German. He wrote ‘Great disorders and inconveniences may one day arise among us,’ he warned, unless the Germans could be assimilated: (Pretty Smart Fellow).
200 years ago there were about 20 languages which could be heard across America. Now there is an estimated ~ 320 dialects being spoken across the Nation. The total cost of printing Government documents was hard to pin down but I was able to find this interesting figure:
Lindsey Graham R/SC once stated that the IRS printed 500,000 1040 forms in Spanish and received back only 700. At $157 a form you can do the math and that example is only one form in Spanish. The number must be staggering.
Time to stop the bleeding and get our financial house in order.