Dems don't care, just as long as they can vote.
As a resident of Los Angeles, I think that number is too low.
They CAN read the words "Welfare" and "Meal Ticket", though.
What do you expect when we're being overrun by the "Viva la Raza" illegals and their Leftist supporters who insist that we should have to learn their language, not vice-versa.
In a rational state this would be a wake up call. In California, literacy testing is a racist plot to undermine the self esteem of undocumented immigrants.
I'm going to guess that the number includes hollywood- most of those nitwits sound illiterate.
Its not shocking at all. Unending mass legal and illegal immigration plus politically correct education equals disaster.
Well, wee all no thet moor spinding is the anser.
Amnesty, drivers licenses, and social security benefits will make it all better.
thats because they are all illegals...
Hmmm, 53%. Now I wonder what group makes up the majority of that 53%. You just as well consider 53% of L.A.'s residents to be here without documents. I'm shocked...
Annexation.
You know bud, it angers me thinking that those who drive 50% of the cars on the roads in some areas, upwards of one third of the kids in LA Unified, over 80% of those receiving services at LA County owned hospitals are illegal immigrants.
Where's our disaster relief? Yeah, I know. The check's in the mail.
This is because many of these people when they were in high school were intimidated by the American culture. Further, many of them had to drop out because they got pregnant, due to not knowing how to use contraceptives properly.
The answer to LA's illiteracy crisis is more time spent on multiculturalism in the classroom, and more school funding for training in the fine art of condom useage. Reading, Writing and English classes are just getting in the way of the really important things our schools need to accomplish.
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Reseda--I moved FROM Reseda, after living there 27 years because of this problem and the ones like it.
I could no longer do business at a restaurant, dry cleaners, gas station, hardware store, etc, because I spoke ENGLISH and these intruders did NOT. I got too frustrated with trying to communicate a simple order for a samdwich and a coca cola with no ice. It ALWAYS came with ice, and there were totally "deer in the headlights" looks
when I asked for it the way I ordered it. Had to speak to "manager" more than once. They often weren't much better. Sure took the enjoyment out of going out to eat. Notice that the article doesn't clarify if the worker at Carrows was illegal intruder or not.
True story: McDonalds on Parthenia near Tampa, just north of Reseda in Northridge: Employee didn't speak English. COULD NOT take an order from a customer in English. A second employee stood there, on the crowded back counter at lunch time, translating order from customer to "order taker" who then struggled to put info into computer and then find the items, all of which had wrappers printed in English. One of my best friends had a total hissy fit about this-MIDDLE OF THE LUNCH PERIOD- and flat raised a ruckus. Manager told him there was nothing he could do about it. My friend said if he came in again and witnessed the same thing, the shop lunches he bought there every day to the tune of $75-100, 6 days a week would be purchased elsewhere. He went elsewhere after that. I don't think there is a single McDonalds in the country that can walk away from prox $2000 a month from one source of customers, a nearby machine shop.
A by-product of these "employees" is the fact that their non-working "friends" start hanging around the place of business, hanging in the parking lots, loitering, just waiting to chat with their working friends during breaks, lunches, etc. This becomes a completely separate problem, but it is very off-putting for customers. Made me quit going more to than one place. Even when I expressed my discomfort to managers, they were too scared or too stupid to address the problem. It didn't take long for fairly busy places to be scratching for customers.
I think the efforts to teach "bi-lingual" classes for years in LA is also part of the problem here. Millions of dollars of money were wasted. The longer you coddle these people, the longer they take to learn the English language. I think they also develop the idea that we should learn their languages. I will--when and ONLY WHEN I go to their country, not one second earlier.
The fact that someone is now complaining that there is such a high rate of illiteracy in Southern Calif is no news to me. I have alot more stories about how frustrating it became to live there. They cannot make change. They cannot give directions. They cannot count items to ring them up. They are a disaster to the employer, especially the small businessman.
Add all the other costs of doing business in Calif, and there is no secret why businesses are closing and starting up out of the state. Cannot fire or lay these people off without penalties, so you move to a new place, out of state, and wipe the slate clean and start over.
This is a cancer that needs to be addressed. Most are here illegally. Ship them out, and keep them out.
that's the democrat plantation.
can you imagine immigrants of a century ago being cheated by the unions of the same party that they vote for?