Press 1 for English, hell no!

This site is about common sense and the things that we need to do to return our country to its glory of the past. As I mentioned before, there are many different things going on in this country that simply don't make sense and that the average American is fed up with. I talk to many different people in my daily life and I can honestly say that there is a consensus about one thing that drives people crazy and that is having to press 1 for English everytime you get a recording instead of a live person for almost any endeavor you are trying to accomplish. Last I checked this is still the United States of America, not the United States of Mexico. There is absolutely nothing rascist about pointing out the fact that this practice makes people mad. In fact, if anything it is borderline harrasment against all of the other immigrants who have come to this country from other places and had to learn English to survive in this country. Take a look at the following qoute from President Theodore Roosevelt in 1906. He said "'In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the person's becoming in every facet an American, and nothing but an American...There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn't an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag... We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language... and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people."

Theodore Roosevelt 1907

That is a statement that really leaves no room for ambiguity or second guessing. That is Presidential leadership if I have ever seen it. Teddy Roosevelt is needed now in this country to set us straight again. He is saying we will take you in no matter who you are and where you are from and we will not discriminate against you because of your origin, race or creed. Everyone will be given a fair chance to succeed. However, in return for that, we expect a few basic things in return. You will honor our country and our flag, and you will learn to speak English. At the turn of the 20th century there were immigrants flocking to America from all over the rest of the world, looking for a place to build a life and start a family. They all had to struggle through with learning the English language in order to compete in this country. Why is it that nearly 100 years later we are supposed to be catering to a new group of immigrants who want to come here and still honor their own flags and speak their own language, and use all of our medical facilities for free and blame us for all of their problems and we do nothing but feel guilty about it? We need to stand up for what we believe in and what we were founded on. This guilt driven by the merciless stream of lawsuits undertaken by the likes of the ACLU and many others is eating away at a core foundation of our country. That when you come to America, your opportunities are endless and greater than probably anywhere else in the world or else you all wouldn't be coming here in masses, but you must become an American the way Teddy Roosevelt described it in 1907. To get alot, you must give up only a little. We have only 1 flag and 1 official language in this country. if you don't like it, you can go back to wherever you came from. No one is stopping anyone from leaving who wants to and I think it could help put a halt to alot of the problems that are plaguing us right now. At the turn of the 20th century, most of the immigrants who came to America came to truly build something and they were here for the long haul. They moved into ethnic neighborhoods with like minded people from similar parts of the world, in big cities to build a life and a future for themselves and their future generations. They learned to love this country and all of the freedoms that it stood for. Many of them had never received any of these same freedoms in the land that they had left. They were invested in this country and their communities and they worked hard to make them prosper. They knew they never wanted to go back to where they came from and why would they? They had everything they had ever dreamed of right here. Freedom to practice any religion, pursue any career, set up a family that would grow up in a country that was full of opportunities. Now here we are, 100 years after President Theodore Roosevelt's speech about immigration and we have a whole new paradigm. Many newer immigrants today want us to learn their language and cultures. They want to pledge their flags and get disturbed when people have the audacity to object to such actions. They really don't show much affection at all to our country and in some instances do nothing but bad mouth it. Many people have no interest in building anything of importance or giving anything back to this country, rather they want to extricate as much as they can from the United States and send it back to their own homeland's. Some of these issues may be generalizations, but these are the things that are disturbing most of the people that I come in contact with on a regular basis. We Americans deserve the same respect today from new immigrants that our ancestors insisted on in the past and that Teddy Roosevelt so eloquently summarized in his speech in 1907. It doesn't seem like its asking for too much!