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When the founding fathers decided to use their collective wisdom to create the United States of America, I am quite sure that they did not feel it necessary to specifically define English as the official language for our nation.

To them it was an absolute no-brainer. Just as it was also assumed that marriage was between a man and a woman; that is, Adam and Eve -- not Adam and Steve. But like most time-held traditions of our nation, English as the unspoken official language of our nation is not only under assault, it is being threatened to become a special-interest language. How is that possible when our nation's schools teach English from Kindergarten clear through the 12th grade?

It is possible because very slowly the invasion of literally millions of illegal aliens across our borders have begun to influence when we can speak our own language. They seem to be able to define when it is legal to not speak it because the new minority language -- that is, Spanish -- may soon replace English as the unofficial language. If illegal immigration is not checked it will become the majority language.

After all Spanish is in vogue, and in some cases is mandatory for employees to speak or the employee can be suspended from his or her job, and an employer may be sued for insisting that an employee speak English.

I'm sure you will agree that one of the most frustrating and irritating things that we have to deal with in this nation is having to listen on the telephone through at least one other or two other languages when we are attempting to order service, complain about a problem, find out what the solution to our problem might be or just attempting to navigate through a maze of offerings on an entertainment or concert phone site.

Why are we allowing the very language of our American identity to slip away simply because some in our nation desire to be politically correct? Well it is quite possible that we soon may be "politically corrected" out of existence because we want to accommodate every person who decides that he is too lazy to learn the spoken language of our nation.

This is the same illegal alien who insists that although he is an unwelcome guest in our country, his children (who are also here illegally) must be educated in our public schools and taught in their native language because to do otherwise would be discriminatory.

So, America must accommodate this nonsense at our own expense. If we were in Mexico, would there be a hue and cry for English to be taught to the American immigrants? Would Mexican social service providers, Mexican teachers, or Mexican businesses be intimidated into providing -- at their expense -- English-only documents? And would their courts even entertain a lawsuit that allowed for a nonsense suit to be adjudicated in favor of the American immigrant because his Mexican employer refused to allow him to speak in his own native tongue because he was, after all, more comfortable with that, and to do otherwise would be discriminatory?

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