But, I am pressed on your remark:
“Honestly, people will learn what they need to get by. If they can earn a living and support themselves without being able to understand me, more power to them.”

That is fine, however, when the government has to bend itself to deal with people who refuse to learn any of the language, they are wasting resources that the government is forcing me to pay for.

Now, I said I believe they should learn. I have said nothing of making it mandatory for immigration. But I would not expect to move to another country and have them accomadate me. I have always chosen to pick up what language skills I can when I was living outside of the states. The Japan reference was listed, because I lived there for 4 years. Yes, I learned to speak enough Japanese to get by. But I should have no expectation of other people having to accomodate me when I am in their country.

Now, my views may change with proper persuaion. As you can read from my previous post, my views have changed over the years to be fine with immigration, legal or otherwise.

But show me where the value brought exceeds the amount stolen out of my pocket throught axes, to offer 300 different government lines and specialized workers just to talk to someone who did not want to bother to learn english. Please, do, and I will gladly reconsider my point of view.

He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.

Ted, why the heck do you care whether someone can speak English coming to the U.S. or not? I have friends whose parents cannot speak a word of English (one whith Romanian parents, and one set whose parents only speak Korean). Yet, they are productive people who run businesses and make their communities more prosperous.

Honestly, people will learn what they need to get by. If they can earn a living and support themselves without being able to understand me, more power to them.

Can you name a single person in the US of A who has not broken a single law? I do not think I can. I’ve broken several, sometimes without knowing they exist.

There are good laws. There are bad laws. I am fine with immigration.

I used to say that I did not like Illegal Immigration, but that I was fine with Legal Immigration. I have since changed my mind a bit. It’s actually not immigration, legal or otherwise that gets my dander up. It’s the fact that someone is here illegally and benefiting from things like Welfare, and Unemployment, and the like. However, I realize that that is mostly my dislike of things like Welfare. I think the programs are broken, and a waste of tax dollars that were unfairly taken from me.

I do not feel that immigrants take my jobs. I am a highly skilled worker, but I have dug ditches before. And trust me; there is plenty of that work for anyone. Most people who do not have jobs do not have them because they are too proud to take day laborer positions.

So, feel free to come and immigrate. I think it should be easy. I do not mind cheap. I do think, however, that if you come to the country, you should learn to speak the language. I would not expect to move to Japan without learning Japanese.

Did you even read the post? Your comment is completely off-topic.