English Only Bills Introduced in House and Senate (legal, Hispanics, companies)

[dcsldcd]

Great news. This will save more taxpayer dollars and establish english as our official language. Let the people who don't like it, pay for translators and documents printed in foreign languages. Let's see how they step up to the plate to financially support their beliefs.

[burdell]

Originally Posted by thecoalman

A husband is in the basement and mixes some cleaning chemicals that react and create dangerous vapor, husband just makes it out basement alive. Emergency responders arrive but neither the wife or husband speaks English and the responders do not speak their language. Wife points to basement and emergency responder goes to investigate...

In this case the emergency responders have no clue how to treat the husband putting his life in danger and we are also putting the life of the emergency responder in danger.

This would be one example of why we need one language, I think more importantly the savings by not having to produce redundant material in two languages is argument enough for official language.

Say the husband & wife speak only Navajo, should they be forced to learn English?

[All American NYC]

Originally Posted by Strel

Most countries don't have a First Amendment, either.

You might want to give your position some more thought...

Why are you against it?

[theunbrainwashed]

Originally Posted by le roi

Sounds like the emergency responder is not properly trained.

Why does he have to be trained in local communication? if I go to visit France, is it right for me to demand I be accommodated in English or Spanish wherever in the country I may be?

[dcsldcd]

Originally Posted by burdell

Say the husband & wife speak only Navajo, should they be forced to learn English?

LOL. Here comes one to pull a feather out of his hat.

[thecoalman]

Originally Posted by baxendale

How does it divide the country?

UK, Germany, France and Spain? What's the big difference between all these?

[All American NYC]

Originally Posted by baxendale

How does it divide the country?
I just wish I had a nickel for every time I was at a party and the subject of why don't we have an official language came up......I'd be broke.

Do you want to turn this country into the tower of Babel?

Theodore Roosevelt on immigration

"In the first place we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the man's becoming in very fact an American, and nothing but an American...

There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn't an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag, and this excludes the red flag, which symbolizes all wars against liberty and civilization, just as much as it excludes any foreign flag of a nation to which we are hostile...We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language...and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people."

[thecoalman]

Originally Posted by le roi

Sounds like the emergency responder is not properly trained.

Trained in what? Second language?

[burdell]

Originally Posted by dcsldcd

LOL. Here comes one to pull a feather out of his hat.

Better than the things Congress attempts pulling out of its butt when they should be addressing the real problems we face. The Republicans claim to be about cutting spending, how does passing a bill with exceptions that will require monitoring/enforcing fit in with cutting spending?

[le roi]

Originally Posted by theunbrainwashed

Why does he have to be trained in local communication? if I go to visit France, is it right for me to demand I be accommodated in English or Spanish wherever in the country I may be?

I thought we were talking about the United States?