Posted on 05/06/2002 4:21:05 PM PDT by DeaconBenjamin
Well, if this is how they want to play, then I suggest we start using some tactics that the left uses. I like to see some discrimination lawsuits filed in California and Texas regarding in-state tuition for illegal aliens. My son, being an American citizen is not being afforded the same benefit that these states would grant an illegal alien. If that is not discrimination then I don't know what is.
Don’t believe me. Look at the want ads in the Los Angeles Times, the Orange County Register, and any of the big city newspapers and all over the country. Take a look at Monster.com, the giant of on-line job listing for the entire country. Start reading all of the ads. You will be shocked, as you wont qualify for many of them because you don’t speak the right language!
Construction foreman better speak Spanish so they can attempt to communicate with the workers. Insurance claims representatives, people that work in court houses, in social services, police, human resources, sales people, city employees, dispatchers, retail clerks, Department of Motor Vehicles, and on and on and on.
And it’s getting worse folks! And it’s not just Spanish, they are looking for Vietnamese, Chinese, applicants etc etc.
Why are our so-called leaders catering to these foreigners and illegal aliens. Why are we being sold out in our own country? Don’t they realize that if this continues, it will be like a domino effect. Once you start this, there is no return.
There is no longer any damn incentive for any of these people to learn English.
Why can’t these foreigners learn to speak English? Why do many of them have no desire to learn English? Could it be that they no longer need to? Maybe I am crazy, but when I am in public, or in a working situation or even at the market, I find it extremely offensive to have people stand several feet from me carrying on a conversation in a foreign language, on a routine basis.
And its getting down right dangerous, when you need to communicate with someone in a potentially dangerous situation, and they just stand their with the deer in the headlights look.
It's getting crazy, as our politicians and so-called leaders are now even giving speaches in foreign languages, thinking this is cute or in a sick attempt to gain votes.
We are being sold down the river. If this does not stop, this country will become a tower of babble.
English is the thread that holds this country together and we are losing it fast.
Think of your kids. Are they going to demand that they learn Spanish or whatever language to survive? Why can’t they learn our language? Is there an agenda here? Many of these people come here and wave foreign flags, celebrate their own holidays, and now, refuse to even learn English because the job they just got, didn’t require it.
Must be bilingual, English only need not apply.
Private companies can require any skill they so wish from a prospective employee before they get hired, they are after all private companies, and every level of government may need people who can communicate in a wide range of languages. In that case, they can require proficiency in a foreign language as a pre-requisite of employement. If your relative was hired for a job that required a certain level of proficiency in Spanish, and she can't perform at that level, then the employer has the right to terminate, if that's not the case, she needs to get a good attorney, and sue the pants off that school district.
That gets me really angry. The taxpayers end up footing the bill and the guy who committed the crime goes scott free. I think if the taxpayes have to pay anything the bureaucrat who did it should at a minimum be fired (and perhaps a few of his superiors also).
Good point. Orlando (El Duque) Hernandez has been with the New York Yankees for four years now, and supposedly still can't speak any English. The idea that somebody who already has a full-time job could learn a foreign language in their spare time in 60 days is preposterous.
Otherwise, she should sue the City and win BIG. Enough to send a message that you don't treat people like this and get away with it.
I received a letter each yesterday from Phil Gramm and Kay Bailey Hutchinson regarding immigration. I've been bugging my congresscritters.
I haven't heard anything from Bush. I wonder why"
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