[Capriole]

English and Spanish are so very, very similar that I can't understand why an immigrant from a Spanish-speaking country can't take the trouble to learn at least a little English.

Recently I was approached by a beggar who gave me a card explaining in English and Spanish that he had five brothers, yada yada yada. I handed it back to him and, in English, asked him why he didn't get a job to support his perhaps imaginary brothers--after all, he was a healthy guy in his early twenties. He shook his head and said, "No puedo hablar el Ingles." So I asked him in Spanish. He was taken aback and said that he didn't have a job because he doesn't speak English. I laced into him in Spanish. I said first of all that all the other Spanish speakers managed to get jobs, so why was he so lazy? Second, if I can take the trouble to learn his language, why can't he learn English? I added that I objected to being forced to speak Spanish in my own country by worthless louts like him and if he was too lazy to do anything but beg he ought to go back where he came from because this is a country of opportunity for hard-working people. He was astonished because he didn't know that blonde ladies could rip him a new one in Castillian-accented Spanish.

[FITZ]

English and Spanish are so very, very similar that I can't understand why an immigrant from a Spanish-speaking country can't take the trouble to learn at least a little English.

It takes a motivated adult only about 6 months to learn another language. Children take even less time.

[Kozak]

Civil rights law requires health facilities that accept any federal funding to make provisions for non-English speakers.

Provided free of course. Just like the care mandated in the ER by EMTALA. Doctors are free, nurses are free, translators are free, lights, supplies, equipment of course all come free.

Of course when it comes to value,
YOU GET WHAT YOU PAY FOR

[VeniVidiVici]

He was astonished because he didn't know that blonde ladies could rip him a new one in Castillian-accented Spanish

Good for you! My wife is fluent in Spanish and she loves just laying back and letting people think she doesn't understand them, until she launches into them. She has surprised and embarrassed many by doing that and I always get a chuckle.

[Steely Glint]

"this is a this is a country of opportunity for hard-working people. ..."

Well, yes, but the anti-American Left has been busily trying for decades to turn it into a country of opportunity for NON-working people.

And they are succeeding.