Friday, December 08, 2006

Only English should be Mandatory

For the purpose of conducting business between the US government and its citizens, all the other languages should be optional.

Its a nice gesture to have street signs, menus, advertising, etc. in multiple languages to assist our guests and visitors.  And Hotel's are very wise to have concierges that speak several languages, especially in NY and DC.

And our hospitals, police departments and courts should have a means to provide translator services for those guests and visitors that require legal or medical assistance during their visit to the US.

But, there is no compelling reason to "require" providing voting ballots and other US government to US citizen communications in languages other than English when the requirements for naturalized US citizenship is a demonstration of competency to read, write and speak English.

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