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[IndyInVa]

English As The "Official" Language of America? A recent poll by a nonpartisan research firm says 83% of Marylanders believe laws should be passed making English the official language of the U.S. This would require that all official documents and government business be conducted only in English -- no more printing in other languages. Do you agree with this proposal?

[IndyInVa]

Daily Kos is trying to skew the results. Currently at 50/50.

[Bahbah]

Done.

[mlc9852]

In areas with a large Spanish-speaking population, private businesses often print in both English and Spanish. Makes good business sense. Realistically, learning Spanish is smart. Many employers prefer someone bilingual if they have a lot of Spanish-speaking customers. We need to face reality. Teach kids Spanish from elementary school up. I grew up in So. Fla. and they won.

[GVnana]

52/48 Yes.

[GVnana]

I grew up in California. They can speak English.

[softwarecreator]

Do you agree with this proposal?

Yes, we must declare English our official language now before it's too late.	51%
No, this will only make things worse for lots of people, unnecessarily so.	49%

[BlueStateDepression]

"We need to face reality."

I guess you got a mouse in your pocket. I am not part of your "we".

NO sir, T H E Y need to leanr E N G L I S H.

Nuff said.

[BlueStateDepression]

learn even!

[La Enchiladita]

YES!

[Doogle]

done

[Alexander Rubin]

More FReeping needed

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English As The "Official" Language of America?
A recent poll by a nonpartisan research firm says 83% of Marylanders believe laws should be passed making English the official language of the U.S. This would require that all official documents and government business be conducted only in English -- no more printing in other languages.

Do you agree with this proposal?

Yes, we must declare English our official language now before it's too late.
58%

No, this will only make things worse for lots of people, unnecessarily so
42%

[MassachusettsGOP]

Who is Chris Core?

[La Enchiladita]

PING.

[Dashing Dasher]

Do you agree with this proposal?
Yes, we must declare English our official language now before it's too late.
60%
No, this will only make things worse for lots of people, unnecessarily so.
40%

[Sisku Hanne]

This isn't about discrimination, it's about the overwhelming cost of trying to conduct the government's business in multiple languages. We see this now in education where schools have to provide materials in multiple languages if minorities reach a certain percentage of the local population. In my area it was Spanish, Vietnamese and most recently Russian. If you don't do it, you lose your Perkins funding.

Now imagine how this would spiral out of control on a federal level(already sodden with red tape and paperwork) and what the enormous cost would be to the taxpayers.
If a private business want to incur bilingual advertising expenses as part of doing business, that's a different matter and their choice.

[Dashing Dasher]

Ping - Freep this pole - PLEASE!!!

[Saratogamema]

60/40 done

[Black Tooth]

Bttt

[onyx]

Done.

61% = yes

39% = no

[DoughtyOne]

63% to 57% at this time...


LOL, just seeing if anyone's paying attention.

63% to 37%