78% of Americans Have Contact "Often" or "Sometimes" with Spanish Speakers (ABC Poll)

ABC News ^ | 10/08/07 | Peyton Craighill

[americanophile]

If you’re from a border state the poll should ask how often you run into someone who speaks English.

[rineaux]

I read your pain. Our leaders are doing nothing about it other than encouraging more illegal immigration for many of reasons, including getting votes.

[JRios1968]

Yo tambien...claro, mi familia esta en Puerto Rico, so...

[CondorFlight]

I listen to Spanish TV news once in awhile—only understand about half of it, since my Spanish isn’t fluent.

But the contrast with the US media is immediately apparent. There is much more actual news coverage. (Hugo Chavez turning Venezuela into a socialist labor camp may not be covered in the English media, but it is in the Spanish media.)

Ditto for a lot of other stories. The emphasis is actually upon covering the NEWS, and not in happy talk or long magazine-type pieces that take up ten minutes of the half-hour broadcast and actually tell you nothing.

[onedoug]

Pues...estan alla.

[RachelFaith]

That’s cause the real count is 38 MILLION...

Or rather in a more Spiritual Sense... I would guess 40 Million...

Since that’s how many English speaking babies we’ve murdered.

[Empireoftheatom48]

I have a part time job.I do a scientific research poll, doing calls in Cal. As an aside I have called people in various states but people in Cal. for the most part are very uncooperative and rude. I get a lot of answering machines that only speak Spanish as well as families who don’t speak English at all. Most customer service jobs in my area only hire Bilingual. It’s Hell to be an old Conservative white guy here!

[G Larry]

I just took a poll of 10 million Americans and discovered that 100% of Americans often or frequently come into contact with Christians.

Ummmm.....what are we supposed to conclude from the “information” presented in these kind of polls?

I think the results of my poll indicate we should declare America a Christian nation!

[dragnet2]

All told, 78 percent in this ABC News Good Morning America poll say they often or sometimes come into contact with people in this country who speak mainly Spanish rather than English

What would they expect when our government has aided and abetted the violent invasion of 25,000,000 illegal aliens?

Go Homeland Security!

[umgud]

My dad was having trouble ordering a specialty sanwich from a supermart. The girl behind the counter wasn’t understanding him very well. He eventually appologised for having a foregn accent. She asked where he was from and he said the USA.

[Wacka]

Here in Northern CA, there are lots of illegals hanging around in front of all the Lowes and Home Depots looking for a job. If you buy stuff and don’t hire them, you get yelled at. At the fast food places, you don’t get hired unless you Speak Spanish. The only place I haven’t seen that is at In-N- Out Burgers, they have real American teens working there, not 20 something illegals.

[Sir_Ed]

After the Life Chain on Sunday we had pretzels at the local mall. The woman at the cash register could not speak one single word of English. She just stared at us when we asked her about the cost of one of the items, then her boss whispered in her ear what we said.

She just stared at us as we said “no ice” for the drinks, ‘til her manager whispered again in Spanish what we had just said.

The she dropped my change in my hands, without saying a word. I said “don’t you count out change?” She again just stared blankly at me, until her manager whispered in Spanish what we said at which point she said in almost incomprehensible English “four dollars.”

And the most bizzare aspect of this? We went to the same pretzel shop at the mall LAST year after the Life Chain and had the SAME woman as this time and in one year’s time, she was STILL as unliterate in English as a year prior!

That time, last year, we asked her about the jalapeno chicken, and she just stared at us, till someone told her in Spanish what we had asked. Same thing with a detail on the fried rice in the combo plate...just stared at us until someone whispered in Spanish what we were saying!

So here it is, ONE YEAR LATER, and this SAME woman (we knew it was the same woman because she had an unusual non-Latino name) has not learned ONE SINGLE WORD OF ENGLISH!!!

Why the owner hires such a bizzare choice for someone who works with the public, I will never know! I suspect it has to do with her working for less money or benefits than a citizen?

Ed

[dragnet2]

Here in Northern CA, there are lots of illegals hanging around in front of all the Lowes and Home Depots looking for a job. If you buy stuff and don’t hire them

A middle age women, being a total naive fool, picked one up, at the local Home Depot illegal alien sanctuary, for a home repair..Hours later after the job, he returns to her home, rapes her at knife point repeatedly, steals her vehicle...They find this 3rd world maniac 3 hours later, 100 miles away, just cruising around in her vehicle...She's in the hospital, and he's facing 9 felonies.

This just happened last week.

Way to go Bush!