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Consider the millions of German Americans, many of whom settled the Midwest still posting billboards and business signs in public, in Deutsch today. Many Spanish speakers are not assimilating because of the sheer size of their local communities. I submit the Spanish speakers clinging to their language will be screwing themselves, and limiting their growth and freedom of effortless societal movement.Regarding language issues that threaten societies, see Canada.

Paul Ryan 2009

key question that ought to be addressed in any healthcare reform legislation is, are we going to continue job-lock or are we going to allow individuals more choice and portability to fit the 21st century workforce?"

Paul Ryan 2014

"I guess I understand 'better off' in the context of healthcare. But 'better off' in inducing a person not to work who is on the low-income scale, not to get on the ladder of life, to begin working, getting the dignity of work, getting more opportunities, rising their income, joining the middle class, this means fewer people will do that. That's why I'm troubled by this."

Paul Ryan divorcing himself from reality, as one might expect from someone making pronouncements about the working class from the comfort of a padded chair in a Capitol hearing room. Many beneficiaries of the Affordable Care Act will cut their hours or leave their jobs precisely because they want to help their children move into the middle class by giving them a more nurturing home life. Or because they no longer are forced to work two jobs just for health care coverage, or because they want to start a business of their own, or because they appreciate that working an undignified job until you drop, simply because society doesn't deem you worthy of secure good health unless you do, has nothing to do with "the dignity of work."

Ryan is opposed to raising the minimum wage, surely a path to dignity at work. The real fear here is the "job creators" are realizing they are losing their total control of the labor force that includes many who have been forced to work crappy jobs for crappy wages just to have health coverage or enough cash to pay for a doctors visit.

How about the idea of a job creator being the individual?

"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Consider the millions of German Americans, many of whom settled the Midwest still posting billboards and business signs in public, in Deutsch today. Many Spanish speakers are not assimilating because of the sheer size of their local communities. I submit the Spanish speakers clinging to their language will be screwing themselves, and limiting their growth and freedom of effortless societal movement.Regarding language issues that threaten societies, see Canada.

Today, everyone I know whose native language is spanish also speaks fluent English. There are many more bilingual native Spanish speaker than there are native English speakers. There is even a problem with immigrants who know only English and regret that they are not fluent in Spanish. Fifty years from now it may be importaant to speak both Spanish and English if you live in this country. It looks as if Spanish speakers already have a leg up since they are more likely to be bilingual. Eventually, the languages may fuse and the result will be something that is unrecognizable as is English of the 11th century. I don't know much about Canada's problems, but I do know that Quebec is my favorite province.

Today, everyone I know whose native language is spanish also speaks fluent English. There are many more bilingual native Spanish speaker than there are native English speakers. There is even a problem with immigrants who know only English and regret that they are not fluent in Spanish. Fifty years from now it may be importaant to speak both Spanish and English if you live in this country. It looks as if Spanish speakers already have a leg up since they are more likely to be bilingual. Eventually, the languages may fuse and the result will be something that is unrecognizable as is English of the 11th century. I don't know much about Canada's problems, but I do know that Quebec is my favorite province.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quebec_referendum,_1995
The referendum took place in Quebec on October 30, 1995, and the motion to decide whether Quebec should secede from Canada was defeated by a very narrow margin of 50.58% "No" to 49.42% "Yes".

Today, everyone I know whose native language is spanish also speaks fluent English. There are many more bilingual native Spanish speaker than there are native English speakers. There is even a problem with immigrants who know only English and regret that they are not fluent in Spanish. Fifty years from now it may be importaant to speak both Spanish and English if you live in this country. It looks as if Spanish speakers already have a leg up since they are more likely to be bilingual. Eventually, the languages may fuse and the result will be something that is unrecognizable as is English of the 11th century. I don't know much about Canada's problems, but I do know that Quebec is my favorite province.

You need to visit Orlando or Miami. There are tens of thousands of Spanish only speakers here. It would only be important to speak Spanish if the non-assimilation dynamic persists. Canada came within one percent of a split over the English-French struggle. The issue of language as a uniter/divider is not a left-right political struggle but you can try to characterize it as such. The real issue is the over whelming numbers of immigrants and the political land grab that some engage in for personal benefit.

Shouldn't we NW Floridians be speaking a Choctaw or Creek dialect if we truly wanted to properly assimilate to the area?

How about the idea of a job creator being the individual?

Exactly, and those who choose to leave their current job will be replaced with someone seeking employment. This is the way it has always been and always will be. I cannot understand why Republicans are suddenly against personal choice and freedom.

You need to visit Orlando or Miami. There are tens of thousands of Spanish only speakers here. It would only be important to speak Spanish if the non-assimilation dynamic persists. Canada came within one percent of a split over the English-French struggle. The issue of language as a uniter/divider is not a left-right political struggle but you can try to characterize it as such. The real issue is the over whelming numbers of immigrants and the political land grab that some engage in for personal benefit.

I don't define assimilation as the ability to form certain syllables. We live in a hemisphere in which most of the land mass provides a home to people who don't speak English as a first language. It would be a denial of objective reality to expect that English as we know it today will prevail a century from now. Life is a political land grab that all engage in for personal benefit. Until Spanish-only laws are enacted by the legislature in places like Florida. I dont think Quebec is a good comparison.

"If somewhere within the Bible, I were to find a passage that said 2 + 2 = 5, I wouldn't question what I'm reading in the Bible. I would believe it, accept it as true, and then do my best to work it out and understand it."

Pastor Peter LaRuffa


Almost speechless except to say this is more proof that religion is the total surrender of critical thinking. The Christian right wants to replace knowledge based on facts learned through experiments and observation with this nonsense.

"If somewhere within the Bible, I were to find a passage that said 2 + 2 = 5, I wouldn't question what I'm reading in the Bible. I would believe it, accept it as true, and then do my best to work it out and understand it."

Pastor Peter LaRuffa


Almost speechless except to say this is more proof that religion is the total surrender of critical thinking. The Christian right wants to replace knowledge based on facts learned through experiments and observation with this nonsense.

You are a religious bigot. The 1st amendment of the Constitution guarantees freedom of ignorance.

“I’ll tell you why I never answer that question,”

”If I tell you that I haven’t, you won’t believe me. And if I tell you that I did, then kids will look up to me and say, ‘Well, I can smoke marijuana because look how he made it.’”

“Now, when I was 17 and 18 and 16, I made dumb decisions as is. I didn’t need the help of marijuana or alcohol to further that,”

“When you go interview for that job, and that thing pops up in your background check that you got arrested for something dumb, they don’t look at you and say, ‘Ahh, you were just 17.’ There are people who won’t get hired because of that stuff,”

“There are bars that will give you a tough — not drinking bars, legal bars, the Florida bar — that won’t let you [in] because of those issues,”


Marco Rubio - answering with what I'm guessing is a long-winded evasive "yes" when asked if he had ever smoked marijuana.

You are a religious bigot. The 1st amendment of the Constitution guarantees freedom of ignorance.

The talking snake agrees with you.

“Here’s the reality — to help pay for his health care law, the president made deep cuts to the successful Medicare Advantage plan, which serves almost 30 percent of all Medicare beneficiaries,”

Rep. Tom Rooney (R-FL) slamming the President and arguing that the Affordable Care Act hurts seniors.

There’s just one problem: Rooney voted for those same cuts on three separate occasions. Paul Ryan has included these very “Medicare cuts” in every GOP budget he’s proposed since the ACA’s passage in 2010. Even though these cuts are to provider payments, and not to benefits, Rooney alongside 95 percent of House and Senate Republicans, voted for Ryan’s budgets with their “Medicare cuts” and all in 2011, 2012, and 2013.

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-m...ays-obamacare-cuts-money-medicare-and-senior/

Today:

Me - "Chase! Look out the window!"

Chase - "What is this, nuclear winter?"

I want to tell you one more thing I know about the Negro, and in front of that government house the door was usually open and the older people and the kids — and there is always at least a half a dozen people sitting on the porch — they didn’t have nothing to do. They didn’t have nothing for their kids to do. They didn’t have nothing for their young girls to do.
And because they were basically on government subsidy, so now what do they do?” he asked. “They abort their young children, they put their young men in jail, because they never learned how to pick cotton. And I’ve often wondered, are they better off as slaves, picking cotton and having a family life and doing things, or are they better off under government subsidy? They didn’t get no more freedom. They got less freedom.

Republican poster boy, free loader, thief, government hater, Fox News contributor, personal friend of Sean Hannity, and Rightwing hero Cliven Bundy discussing "The Negro".

Republican poster boy, free loader, thief, government hater, Fox News contributor, personal friend of Sean Hannity, and Rightwing hero Cliven Bundy discussing "The Negro".

I think Hannity needs to get into a contemplative discussion with his good buddy Ted Nugent over this issue.

Colbert pointed out that Glenn Beck came down on the side of the U.S.Goverment on this one (because he pays his fair share of grazing fees), so, as Stephen put it, Hannity and Rand Paul have now placed Glenn Beck as "the voice of reason" in the Republican Party.

Well, if I were in charge, they would know that waterboarding is how we'd baptize terrorists.

Half wit Sara "I quit" Palin. The rest of the comments from this Teabagger idiot are as insane as this one. Remember, these are the religious fanatics who fear Sharia Law. I took out the link to the video so you wouldn't have to suffer through it.

She isnt teabag, she is more of the Massengale variety.

There aren't a lot of lady douches it seems. She's a rare breed.

@UberFacts: There are enough preservatives in a bag of Doritos to mummify a small dog.