Hello, Time to rant... I am so sick of everything being in spanish and english. I am sick calling the bank or the hospital or the dry cleaners and hearing.." choose one for english..choose two for spanish" I am sick of going to the ATM and getting the same nonsense.
I am sick of bilingual education. I am sick of my hard earned money paying for people who don't care enough about America to learn English. I am so sick of all this I could just barf. And I have done just that.
I cannot accept that it is not possible for EVERYONE with at least 10 working neurons to learn at least some basic english. I am tired of opening a package and finding the instruction manual twice as thick because it is also in spanish. Even the toilet paper is in spanish.
I would never, ever expect another country to cater to my inabillity to speak it's language. Never!
There are some wonderful jobs I was unable to get because I didn't speak the language. Rape Crisis Counselor, psychotherapist, social worker.. a long list. So, and this is true, the jobs went to those less qualified because they were bilingual.
We work so very hard...with our backaches and coming home so late from work we forget what our kids look like and even our dog doesn't recognize us.
We work so hard it seems sometimes that we cannot go on..but we do. How much of the money we make is going to pay for interpreters, wasting ER time, for bilingual education....bilingual everything. Why do we have to feel like a stranger,like an outcast in our own country because we don't speak spanish? I love helping people, it is what I DO, it is what I have dedicated my life to. But I am sick of helping people who do not help themselves, who think so little of me that they will not have the courtesy to learn my language.
No one should be able to become a citizen, get a driver's license, or get any help from any social service agency unless they are enrolled in a class or speak the language.javascript:emoticon('')
Thank you all for listening.. I am tired of feeling helpless...
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