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First of all isn't mass transit in LA an oxymoron. LA now has a subway but from what I hear nobody uses it now and I've heard that the bus service is a joke.

500,000 daily transit riders. If you want to call them oxymoron's, that's your business.

I believe the LA MTA operates either the 2nd or 3rd largest mass transit system in the country.

But, you are right to a degree. It is falling out of favor with more and more people. (I know several former riders who now hop in their car in the morning). Very poor timetable reliability, language barriers (mostly to english speakers), safety, new fare structures, strikes, etc have taken a toll on the integrity of the system.

JMO, your anger should be directed at the liberal groups who wish to enslave their populations

I assure you that I have much disdain reserved for just these people

and not using a broad brush to paint all hispanics as not wanting to learn English or assimilate, thus alienating people who are culturally conservative into the arms of the liberal democrats.

Well, my friend, I live it. And the ratio of them who WANT to assimilate is very low. I have a friend who's mother has been her illegally for 28 years ... and still can't form a sentence in English. Why? She doesn't have to. Everything in this city is printed in Spanish, most of the social service works speak Spanish, and she can fill out WIC, Food Stamp, etc applications in Spanish.

There has to be an incentive to learn English, and certain areas of the country are discouraging it, simply by making English completely uncessesary.

Well, my friend, I live it. And the ratio of them who WANT to assimilate is very low. I have a friend who's mother has been her illegally for 28 years ... and still can't form a sentence in English.

My Grandmother arrived here from modern day Croatia almost a 100 years ago and could hardly speak English when she died. We would go over there on Sundays for dinner and my Grandmother and my Mom would speak Croatian pratically the whole time and my Dad would jokingly say they were talking about him.

I guess my Grandmother to you is just as "evil" as the lady you describe for not knowing the King's English. It has always been that way with immigrants. The people who come over first cling to their native language and then subsequent generations become English only. You may not think so, but I bet you any first generation hispanic immigrant can speak English well. Just like Korean or any other ehnic first generation immigrant.