OpenGov - Open Government Brainstorm

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LEARN ENGLISH LIKE EVERYONE WHO IS LEGALLY HERE HAD TO DO. AND GUESS WHAT I DIDNT HAVE ESL COURSES AVAILABLE AND WAS IN CLASSES WITH 50 STUDENTS AND MAINTAINED AN A AVERAGE THRU COLLEGE. WHAT THE SPANISH ARE TOO DUMB, OR TOO LAZY? U WANT TO BE AN AMERICAN, LEARN THE AMERICAN LIFESTYLE, SERVE IN THE ARMED FORCES AND FOR GOD'S SAKE LEARN ABOUT THE GOVT... IN ENGLISH.

You can get a translation of anything already on the internet in just about every language (you can study a language for 20 years, speak it fluently and still have problems with the translation especially in government documents). So maybe its important for all government documents and such to be posted on the internet. As far as traffic signs anybody who has a license is supposed to be able to read it from the shape of the sign alone and all those other signs I'd like to get rid of all of them except place of business signs.

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I was born here and learned the English language then majored in Biology in College and still could use a translation of lots of things (into English).

This idea is obviously sarcasm but my question is don't we invite ten to twenty million illegal aliens every year to pick apples, oranges and other crops?

And if they aren't allowed in to the country, who is going to do all the jobs they do that Americans don't want to do (or Americans have proven to not do as well like picking)?

We need to make English the national language.

Actually, the moment you do, the possibility that someone could turn around and legislate another language as "THE NATIONAL LANGUAGE" becomes a possibility. If you fight to guarantee your rights including freedom of speech, freedom of the press etc. and make sure that anything that needs to be translated is available for translation on the internet that will insure that the english language remains a force to be recognized in this country.

Although I must admit that its a little disconcerting when you discover that only in America do so many people live who cant speak the languages of their immediate neighbors.

Some countries the regular man in the street speak as many as five languages fluently. Maybe we're just lazy.

However if you want to do your utmost to have a national language other than english within fifty years go ahead and insist that english be made the national language. If you look at the number of Americans of Spanish descent who's ancestors immigrated here from Spain, Mexico, South America and Cuba, they are going to have the majority in only a few more years. If you attempt to restrict their cultural identity by legislating english as a national language inn a few more years they may do the same to you.

No, I think that would be a big mistake. We're better off by supporting the US core values which include an individuals right to your own cultural identity, freedom of expression, religion, speech and the press. The declaration of a national language could easily be taken as an infringement on those rights and help create a political organization to take away our rights.