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Title: Why don't you speak english?
Post by: CJS3 on June 19, 2011, 10:05:46 AM
It never ceases to amaze me how mexicans and mexican wannabes can be SO stupid. Testify against a bill in a language that exemplifies the need for the bill.
http://www.ktrh.com/cc-common/news/sections/newsarticle.html?feed=121300&article=8719378
Title: Re: Why don't you speak english?
Post by: BAC on June 19, 2011, 10:09:21 AM
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Supporters of Senate Bill 9 have said it would help crack down on illegal immigrants. Opponents argue that it will do little to help border security and that it’s instead based on racism.


That "argument" never gets old
Title: Re: Why don't you speak english?
Post by: CJS3 on June 19, 2011, 10:11:52 AM

That "argument" never gets old

It's like the boy who cried wolf. By the way I believe the bill passed the house.
Title: Re: Why don't you speak english?
Post by: sledgemeister on June 19, 2011, 10:25:30 AM
Love ya work senator!

Perhaps we can get a senator exchange program up and running, we have a few of yours and you can have all of ours?  ;D
Title: Re: Why don't you speak english?
Post by: Solus on June 19, 2011, 01:06:09 PM
Love ya work senator!

Perhaps we can get a senator exchange program up and running, we have a few of yours and you can have all of ours?  ;D

LOL  ;D ;D ;D
Title: Re: Why don't you speak english?
Post by: Big Frank on June 19, 2011, 02:47:16 PM
Speak English or get the f**k out. My grandparents learned English when they came here. So can the Mexicans.
Title: Re: Why don't you speak english?
Post by: Majer on June 19, 2011, 03:21:54 PM
Jumbo, it's not that they can't learn to speak english, it's they don't want to or have to. We have all kinds of bilingual signs around from street signs to products for sale in stores. we have a government( from local on up) that supplies translators or documents in their language  for them when they come in to apply for any social programs that they have found out from their friends and relatives. Why would they bother? It's all being handed to them.
Title: Re: Why don't you speak english?
Post by: fightingquaker13 on June 19, 2011, 07:52:29 PM
Love ya work senator!

Perhaps we can get a senator exchange program up and running, we have a few of yours and you can have all of ours?  ;D
Uh, no offense Sledge, but the sign says give us your tired and your poor. It says nothing about your stupid and corrupt.  ;)
FQ13 who wonders if they understand how badly you just dissed them. I mean honestly, how bad to you have to be to get kicked OUT of a nation of convicts? ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
Title: Re: Why don't you speak english?
Post by: mkm on June 20, 2011, 08:36:59 AM
I am not a fan of having to choose what language I want to use to communicate on the phone or having everything in both languages.  However, my recent condition puts me in the position where I don't speak the local language.  Seeing/hearing something not in Chinese is much appreciated.  Therefore, I'm willing to relax my opinions a little in tourist areas and places where people are just passing through, etc. 

I realize that making it available to people passing through also makes it available to immigrants, but there should be some kind of middle ground in some areas. 

However, I'm just here for a couple months and trying to learn to speak the language.  Living anywhere for 23 years (or over a couple for that matter) and not being at least verbally fluent in the local language is unacceptable.

I know some of you have to deal with it more on a daily basis and likely have different views.  However, I currently looking through the eyes of a confused foreigner.