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Daily Kos is trying to skew the results. Currently at 50/50.
1 posted on 11/08/2005 5:00:56 PM PST by IndyInVa
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To: IndyInVa

Done.


2 posted on 11/08/2005 5:03:19 PM PST by Bahbah (Free Scooter; Tony Schaffer for the US Senate)
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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.


3 posted on 11/08/2005 5:03:19 PM PST by mlc9852
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52/48 Yes.


4 posted on 11/08/2005 5:03:47 PM PST by GVnana
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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%

6 posted on 11/08/2005 5:05:12 PM PST by softwarecreator (Facts are to liberals as holy water is to vampires.)
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YES!

9 posted on 11/08/2005 5:09:16 PM PST by La Enchiladita (Request or send care packages for/to troops at www.opgratitude.com)
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done


10 posted on 11/08/2005 5:10:13 PM PST by Doogle (USAF...7thAF ..4077th TFW...408th MMS..Ubon Thailand.."69",,Night Line Delivery..AMMO)
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Who is Chris Core?


12 posted on 11/08/2005 5:14:59 PM PST by MassachusettsGOP (Massachusetts Republican....A rare breed indeed)
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To: HiJinx; Travis McGee; B4Ranch; Iron Matron; DumpsterDiver; janetgreen; DoughtyOne; kellynla; ...

PING.


13 posted on 11/08/2005 5:15:36 PM PST by La Enchiladita (Request or send care packages for/to troops at www.opgratitude.com)
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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%


14 posted on 11/08/2005 5:15:55 PM PST by Dashing Dasher (I'm going to become rich as soon as I invent a device that allows you to smack people over the web!)
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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.

15 posted on 11/08/2005 5:17:05 PM PST by Sisku Hanne (The Old Media, Democrat party & the Left are grim MILLSTONES for our troops)
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60/40 done


17 posted on 11/08/2005 5:17:53 PM PST by Saratogamema (Prayers are always needed--for our President, our troops, and our Nation's people.)
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Done.

61% = yes

39% = no


19 posted on 11/08/2005 5:19:18 PM PST by onyx ((Vicksburg, MS) North is a direction. South is a way of life.)
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This weekend, a middle-aged Caucasian woman and two young Spanish teenage girls (with Bibles under their arms) knocked on my door.

They politely said that they were looking for households which spoke Spanish, and started to walk away.

They devil got into me, and I asked them why would they not want to speak with me, just because I spoke English, and isn't that being discriminatory, and how outraged the Spanish families would be if I rang doorbells and only wanted to speak to Caucasian families.

The woman had a quick response that they wanted to talk with Spanish families about the Bible.

I told them that I wished all people who came to the U.S. would learn how to speak English, and assimilate in the the American system.

Also, I told her that she could make a bigger contribution if she'd encourage the Spanish-speaking families to speak English, and learn to read the Bible in English. That she was an enabler and making the language problem worse.

They were not happy Christian campers when they left my door step.


26 posted on 11/08/2005 5:23:43 PM PST by i_dont_chat (Houston, TX)
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64% Yes.


29 posted on 11/08/2005 5:31:15 PM PST by Michael Goldsberry (an enemy of islam -- Joe Boucher; Leapfrog; Dr.Zoidberg; Lazamataz; ...)
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Thanks to all Freepers! Keep those votes coming!


32 posted on 11/08/2005 5:36:23 PM PST by IndyInVa (There needs to be less corruption. Or more opportunity for me to participate in it.)
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Lets ask the French what they think about allowing huge numbers of people into their country and not forcing them to learn French.

It may be a while before they can respond with all those fires and such.


33 posted on 11/08/2005 5:37:17 PM PST by mad puppy ( The Southern border needs to be a MAJOR issue in 2006 and 2008)
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Done , and the results were:


38 posted on 11/08/2005 5:45:26 PM PST by Yosemitest (It's simple, fight or die)
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The language that works the best is what people will speak, law or no law. English works the best, because it adapts and changes with the ideas that need to be expressed. That's why it's the international language. It's not necessary to make it a law. It's already the law of human nature.


40 posted on 11/08/2005 5:57:23 PM PST by yldstrk (My heros have always been cowboys-Reagan and Bush)
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Holy chit mon you try'n to get your ride burned - later amigo


43 posted on 11/08/2005 6:05:14 PM PST by kentj
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67 to 33, english.


44 posted on 11/08/2005 6:05:19 PM PST by planekT
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