> Dana wrote: > um... had I bothered with my high school transcripts (from France) they would > have been translated at my expense. Not the taxpayer's.
Yes, but that's because English is the official language. If we changed that to add in other languages then I would assume that the government would have to recognize any documents in any of the official languages. Extend that to business and the same would be true. Of course this wouldn't be enforced for very small local businesses, but for corporations you'd have to hire and couldn't say, "must speak English", you'd instead say "must speak English, Spanish, or Canadian" (yah, I'm from Minnasoootah ya know, so I can speak Canadian, eh) For all these reasons I'd say we should have only 1 official language because the real question here is, "Are you willing to have your federal taxes raised 5% (and 3% every year thereafter) to pay for bilingualism?" I'm not. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Create robust enterprise, web RIAs. Upgrade & integrate Adobe Coldfusion MX7 with Flex 2 http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=RVJP Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:233698 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
