America can only afford one language

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Editor, the Advocate:

Should U.S. have an official language? Yes!

Without a common language, a country cannot function. It isn't discriminatory to require one common language be spoken in school or make it a requirement for all official documents and voting ballots be in one language.

A person's native language/culture should not be lost, but to require the government to provide translators for multiple languages, either spoken or written, isn't cost effective.

We can no longer afford to incorporate everyone into the American culture, and that begins with language.

Miles L. Auderer, Victoria


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  • I wonder how much extra it costs to print everything in all the languages we now print all government paperwork. We are stupid for doing it. I don't see Mexico printing all their stuff in english but they sure do cry descrimination when we won't print everything in spanish as well as english. Until the late 60's all people who came here had to learn english to become a citizen. What ever happened to that requirement???? We would save billions if we did not have to print everything in multiple languages or have to teach every subject in the same languages. It's high time that everyone who wants to live here learn the language and stop expecting us to pay for them to keep their native language as their main one. I say if you want the USA to take you in and make you a citizen then learn the language, pay your taxes, and provide for your own needs or expect to be deported back to where ever you came from. The day of the free ride is over we are too broke to support deadbeats let alone our elderly trying to get by on social security THAT THEY PAID INTO ALL THEIR LIVES and get less than some illegal alien does who never paid into the system at all. The day of living off welfare all your life needs to stop!!!!!!!!!!!! Welfare was ment to be a helping hand out of poverty or hardship not a way of life. The government says the unemployment rate is about 10%. That is a lie because is doesn't count all the people on welfare, if you count these people too it's more like 20% or more. Nobody is ENTITLED to a free ride forever. There needs to be a time limit placed on all that free money just like unemployment and you should have to work for it in some fashion to get it. That alone would save money as well if the city/county/state required all able bodied people to do some kind of public service work to earn those welfare checks It would save billions of dollars spent to pay other people to do that work. There should be no trash, overgrown parks or unkept public lands or buildings in any town or city in this country if it was required to work some hours for that welfare check and while we are at it make the non-violent criminals work off their time as well instead of locking them up at over $50,000.00 per inmate per year. If they screw up then put them in jail, and if they get a sentence of 6 months then they owe society at least 20 hours a week and up to 40 hours a week to keep from going to jail with meals provided to them free. These 2 reforms would save billions of dollars and benefit society at the same time.

    March 20, 2010 at 4:53 p.m.
  • everyone desires to learn english especially the aliens!

    March 18, 2010 at 3:02 p.m.
  • "For English please press ONE
    For Deportation please press TWO.
    Not that bad of an idea."

    If only the Native Americans had had that luxury of sending us all back home, this debate would be moot

    March 18, 2010 at 10:24 a.m.
  • For English please press ONE
    For Deportation please press TWO.
    Not that bad of an idea.

    March 18, 2010 at 9:43 a.m.