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I'm pretty sure I'm right when
I say that the only politician in America, over the past thirty years,
to consistently identify real problems, and offer starting point
solutions for them, is Newt Gingrich. From air traffic control
equipment that still uses vacuum tubes, to latch key children who throw
other little kids off the roofs of tenement buildings, he's been right
on. This of course terrifies congressional democrats, and send
them to Plan A in their own play book - Character Assassination. Yesterday Newt did it again by calling for Congress to make English the official language.
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American civilization eventually will collapse if government doesn't
do a better job assimilating immigrants into society, possible GOP
presidential candidate Newt Gingrich said Wednesday as he urged
Congress to enshrine English as the nation's official language.
The former House speaker said political correctness and multiculturalism are clouding the debate about language.
"If you are pro-immigration to America, you should be
pro-assimilation into English as the common language because in fact
your children and grandchildren will have a dramatically better future
if they are part of the common commercial civilization," Gingrich said. - [Gingrich pushes for English as official language] Houston Chron.
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I'm going to guess that any national poll on this question would yield
a 90% agreement rate. I'm not exactly sure what Newt sees as
detail to such a measure, but I see it meaning no public monies may be spent on any non-English language printed matter, with a few exceptions like "Tacos" on school menus. No ballots printed in Spanish, no "Recepción a los Estados Unidos."
If American manufacturers still want to annoy us by including multi
language instructions for coffee makers, have at it. Oh, the
official slogan of this country is USA-UAS-USA!
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Comments
Hey! I guess you decided to start blogging again. That's great. Where did all your commenters' go? Say, how do you do the thing where, if you hover your cursor over certain text, a block of text pops up?
Thx!
Posted by: Cmdr. Subfleet | January 26, 2007 04:18 PM