This weeks poll is on whether English should be declared the official language of the U.S. The impact this would have would be across the board from education to forms printed throughout the country. Having the official language declared would take the burden off of the government to provide so much money on having things produced in multiple languages, thereby putting the burden on the citizen or legal resident of the U.S. to learn the language or acquire an interpreter.
Vote now in the poll box on the navbar to your left.
Your choices are:
Yes
No
You can comment below on the lack of options, my choice of options or any other complaining you want to do.
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Most americans can't speak english properly anyway, so why even vote? j/k
Posted by: deccles at
March 29, 2005 03:48 PM
I think that the official language should be English because the United States Constitution and Declaration Of Independence documents are all written in the English language. What do you think? and I think that it would be wierd to have Spanish or any other as the Official language, It just does not sound right to even suggest it anything but English. Just putting my two cents in.
I have thought all my 74 years of life in this Country, my United States of America, that English should be made the National language and that all citizens be required to learn to speak it. I was born on the 4th of July, am patriotic, spent 26(+)yrs in the United States Navy and am now retired BUT I have spoken out against ALL demonstrations by foreigners on our soil!!....the Iranians when they demonstrated as well as the recent outburst of demonstrations by the Mexican Illegals and their supporters! Needless to say I was beside myself in Vietnam when many of my fellow Americans, aided and abetted by Communist scum or worse,demonstrated & even displayed the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese flags all over the United States!!.......and were allowed to get away with it!!!
I believe our school system should teach OTHER languages and that every student should be required to study at least one, preferably two years of a second language. I studied Spanish two years in high school, both of my daughters studied Spanish in high school and in college. I sent my older daughter to Spain to take a summer course in Salamanca, but I STILL WANT ENGLISH TO BE OUR NATIONAL LANGUAGE! And I don't want any Jane Fondas speaking in Spanish!
Posted by: T. K. JONES at
May 19, 2006 11:53 PM
I applaud the US Senate in its decision to make ENGLISH the OFFICIAL LANGUAGE of the United States. Frankly I feel that it is about time.
This country was founded by English settlers who practiced Christianity. We must STOP altering OUR culture to accomodate people who LEAVE their country to come here.
If they want everything to be the way they were in the place they came from, then they should RETURN to the place they came from.
We must also STOP REWARDING people who enter our country ILLEGALLY by giving them FREE MEDICAL coverage, and we must STOP giving them OUR social security benefits into which they have paid NOTHING.
Many American citizens are asking themselves the same question: why is English becoming America’s national language even an issue? They are right and it shows in polls. 92 percent of Republicans, 79 percent of Democrats, 86 percent of independent voters, and 76 percent of minority Americans favor official English as America’s national language. Shocking? Well it shouldn’t be. The settlers who founded this country used English. The U.S. Constitution and Declaration of Independence are both written in English. When America's national language does become english, and foreign people who speak different languages get mad, then they should go back to where they came from because they never should have left.
Posted by: nat at
November 12, 2006 02:53 PM
English is the official language of 51 nations and 27 states in the United States. Last year, a Zogby International Poll found that 85 percent of Americans supported making English the official language of all government operations. Among Hispanics surveyed, 71 percent supported this idea. This is nothing new; many polls over the years have shown similar numbers.
Speaking English is a guaranteed way for new immigrants to succeed in school, increase their earning potential, and enhance their career options. This nation decided long ago that you must know English to become a citizen. So there, is no reason to offer government services in foreign languages. In the same way that the Pledge of Allegiance and the National Anthem bring this nation together, English is something we share and should promote
Posted by: josh holmes at
October 19, 2007 09:38 AM
No, b/c we have a lot of people that come into this country every year and they dont know any english at some point. If they cant speak our landguage how can they get jobs.what if we had to go to a differnet country nd we had to speack their landguage..it wouldnt be fair to us then..
