Posted on 10/31/2006 9:01:52 AM PST by tang0r
2. Voters need to understand what they're voting for
With English as the national language, American ballots would never be offered in any foreign languages, and for good reason. By what legitimate justification do we allow non-English speaking citizens to cast their ballots for candidates whose positions, platforms, and other important pronouncements are unintelligible to the voting citizen? The American government, despite periodic legislation coercing bilinguality, mainly issues its decrees in English. One who lacks the capacity to understand and interpret the actions of his government should not be granted the ability to issue elective referenda on that which he does not comprehend to begin with.
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The only Spanish I care to learn is "No hablo Espanol."
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