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So, are we to assume that the folks that say WE NEED bi-lingual signs are also assuming that Latinos are too stupid to learn English?

Could you please post this thread in Spanish?? No comprenda

Y3....how about to lazy to learn?

Do you guys remember a few years ago when Florida put on the ballot a vote for Spanish as the official state language? It would appear that Miami's cubano community thought it was larger and possessed more power at the polls that it actually did....of course the bill was voted out...but it was shocking that the attempt was made and some ding-a-ling allowed the measure to get so far as to actually go on the ballot. A sign of the times I suppose.

I used to think the way Frederick County does. However, since my major at G.W.U. was Latin-American Culture & Civilization, a study program that had a majority of students getting their Masters degree, together with what I learned at Eastern High School during WWII, that we live in the Western Hemisphere, together with googling the other day and reading the problems with language south of the border, well I've changed my mind.

Cost Benefit wise, it's cheaper to have everything bi-lingual. It turns out my most recent research, the constitutions of the countries south of the border, have indigenous peoples to concern themselves with. It's simply cheaper to have English as the primary language in the Western Hemisphere and Spanish as the secondary language. That's the only way we can peacefully help all the countries south of our border to be happy staying south of the border. It would help spread the Lingua Franca to even Brazil who has the best research in the study of Mental Health. All their research is in Portuguese. It's frustrating me. I depend on the brain scientists of Brazil. Shades of Baruch Spinoza!!

Could somebody please upload yesterday's 6:00 News coverage video from Frederick, Maryland pertaining to this?

Thanks!

"livratr" ...what are you???? ...all our nation's citizens have arrived via the immigrant route through the legal process ...our posts, as you've observed, for the greater part are expressions of outrage over ILLEGALS who are here by virtue of a deliberate choice to violate our nations laws and bring a host of other troubling issues along with them without regard for the well being of nation ...and they have the gall to expect treatment and services they aren't entitled to, bull!!!! ...so because we protest funding services we’ve created and funded explicitly for the benefit of citizens of our communities across this nation you want to say we’re discriminating ...I'm afraid anyone disagreeing with you is handicapped in reasoning with ...I truly believe you have no agenda to advance and possess a simple view of things here in this issue and it will be some time, if ever, when you may have an ability to engage a discussion above the powers of your mind's present development...

…the other nationalities you've mentioned have respected the fact they expect no more than they ask when we are in their nation ...to be prepared and able to communicate with them in their language and accept that we understand we have no entitlement to use public services they’ve worked to make available to their nation's citizens ...

...your thought is a feeble one at best that we’re being discriminatory and unfairly expecting LEGAL immigrants who join our nation to follow the courtesy of communicating in our language and equitably contributing to the support of public services programs!!!!...

Boots...

Don't flatter yourself.

YOU NEVER THINK. Everybody else here KNOWS THIS but you.


You ARE our daily chuckle!

I guess that's what you call selective memory Cort"...

I also feel that we are overly acoomodating Spanish speaking residents. This country has a number of other immigrants who speak the language of their respective countries; Chinese, French, etc. and the United States is doing NOTHING to accomodate them. And one obvious accomodation is when you call your bank or other business where you can select a certain number on your phone keypad for help in Spanish. If you speak Chinese or another foreign language, you're out of luck since these businesses ONLY provide assistance for Spanish speaking customers.