FW: [Vision2020] Dear President Bush

[lfalen]

The more languages any one can learn the better. However speaking only a foreign language restricts ones movement and upward mobility in the market place.

Roger
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From: Chasuk chasuk at gmail.com
Date: Wed, 03 May 2006 14:15:59 -0700
To: lfalen lfalen at turbonet.com
Subject: Re: FW: [Vision2020] Dear President Bush

> On 5/3/06, lfalen <lfalen at turbonet.com> wrote:
> 
> "Maintaining  a separate language results in balkanisation. The US was
> built on immigration and has been a melting pot. This is the way it
> should be. How to solve the problem of ilegal will be hard to do,
> maybe imposable. For those that are here the best thing that can be
> done is to teach them english with all possible speed."
> 
> I'm a fruit salad kind of guy.  Fondue is okay, but give me a mix of
> distinct apples, oranges, bananas and grapes, please.  It's healthier
> and I think it tastes better.
> 
> Balkanization can be a good or a bad thing, depending on how deeply
> ingrained is commitment to democratic process in the country being
> balkanized.  If the Age of Enlightenment or the Age of Reason have not
> yet visited, it can be a tumultuous experience.  I think USians can
> handle it.
>