Posted on 07/09/2006 5:37:39 AM PDT by HansGygi
BERGEN TOWN'S MAYOR CALLS BILLBOARD 'DIVISIVE'
The mayor of a small Bergen County town is calling for a McDonald's boycott if the fast-food chain does not take down a Spanish-language billboard advertising iced coffee.
Bogota Mayor Steve Lonegan said the advertisement is "offensive" and "divisive" because it sends a message that Hispanic im migrants do not need to learn English.
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Are you near El Cenizos?......I understand this is place where once there was a hispanic majority they decided to use spanish as the main language for all public meetings which I'm sure will be the case soon in other SW cities as the the La Razan's gain more control.
Check out a public school lunch menu sometime.
Most of them serve the same stuff nowadays - sugary soft drinks laden with high-fructose corn syrup and pre-packaged, pre-cooked, highly procesed junk food.
I do not even know of a school that actually prepares fresh, homemade lunches anymore.
The stuff our children are consuming in the public schools is often worse than McDonalds.
Not to the degree it is now plus in years past many of those who came from south of the border came to assimilate and not to colonize (or re-colonize).
Moi, aussi! Vive les Etas Unis!
It infuriates me in this country to have to "press 1 for English" - English should be the default. If a business has enough customers that want support in another language, then they can add that, but there should be no need to make a choice for English.
I had the occasion to be in a local MacDonalds the other day for the first time in 4-5 years. It used to be the help was African American, or local kids. This time, everyone working there was Hispanic, speaking Spanish among themselves completely, even talking about orders to the kitchen -- no way to know if they have it right if you're a normal American who doesn't speak Spanish -- and their accents in English when speaking to customers were so thick I had to ask them to repeat themselves several times in order to understand them. And this was in Greenwich, Connecticut, not some border town in Texas or California! Enough with the Spanish already! I don't patronize any business (unless it's a Spanish/Mexican/Latin American restaurant where you expect Spanish just as you expect French in a French restaurant or Chinese in a Chinese restaurant) where the help speaks primarily Spanish or the signs are in Spanish. Vote with your feet.
Freedom is not absolute. No on has the freedom to become a slave, or to sell out America. You comments are the mantra of the brainwashed left.
It's disgusting to walk into a BofA and see signs in nothing but spanish........I told one of my customer reps I'm looking around for a new place to take my business and personal accounts. Also, I told him that he needs to remind his managers that "aiding and abetting" an illegal alien is against federal law......his repsonse was just a blank look on his face.
Actually, the only thing about these Spanish language signs is that I end up feeling like a foreigner in my own country. While no one sheds any tears over it I am, in essence, being disenfranchised by these folks.
I have no beef with immigrants and immigration, per se, the majority of us come from immigrant stock. But, if one relocates to a new country, one should do their best to assimilate into their new environment, NOT force the residents of the country to assimilate THEIR language, customs and traditions.
You and I are also paying to feed, house, medicate, educate and incarcerate several million of these people who will never have any need to assimilate as long as the gov't, banks and retailers make it so simple for them to latch themselves onto our welfare system......now just just how stupid can we be to let this happen right under our noses and how can this country stay relatively cohesive in light of this illegal invasion?
If there were a better alternative, I would in a heartbeat. I do indeed criticized Bush on immigration. Problem is on the even more important issue of the war, there is simply no alternative. Having seen the Democrats on defense since the 1970s, it will be a very cold day in Hell before I vote for a Democrat for any office. Once upon a time, I would occasionally split tickets, but not for a long time now.
I, for two, am too. America is not the "melting pot" it used to be. Now we are a pot of oil and water.
Arvest Bank (The Bank started and operated by the Walton Family of Wal-Mart fame) advertises Spanish-only on many of its branch marques.
You make a good point with that question. But why is it that when the rest of the world is moving toward English, the United States is moving towards Spanish? English is the language of commerce and a higher standard of living. It would be beneficial to promote it to those who don't speak it in our country.
You're critique of Native Texan stating that We are quickly losing our heritage. didn't make sense until I glanced at your bio.
One certainly couldn't say that you ("I hate Bush") are unhappy with the millions of illegal invaders.
As I recall the signs were touting Christmas Trees.
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