Three Words "Lack of Principles". Just like in the book Centurion Principles when it references a story of a United States President ( I wont say who *cough* she is a presidential candidate and this is her husband) who took a flight over a town severly damaged by a tornado. The story was taken from the pilots point of view who was honored to have the privilege to fly the president around the damage swept town. The way the pilot described it was he was ASTONISHED to see that the president as soon as they took off from the ground whipped out some cards and started playing hearts with barely one glance out the window of the helicopter. How crazy is that? This president then after the helicopter lands uses water from a glass to wet his eyes, and feint the crowd of teary eyed heart broken people into thinking he actually was touched and cared. This is the problem with politics these days it is the lack of moral depth in our political leaders who are as shallow as a puddle when they should be as deep as an OCEAN (George Washington and many other fine fine presidents represent the depth of what political leaders SHOULD be). What does it mean to be an American? What does it mean to be a Citizen of the United States? Throughout America today there are concessions made to illegal aliens as well as those who don't speak english. --The educational system in the United States instead of teaching english to students just bandaids the situation by hiring paras to translate, and having classes that are in a different language. --The work force makes no enforcement of the language of those that they hire, and hires illegal aliens. --Politicians love the idea of illegal-aliens because of the amount of voting power that they get out of supporting the issue. An example of this is the amount of support a bill that was created for illegal immigrants got from politicians "A key feature of CIRA is that most immigrants identified as “temporary” are, in fact, given convertible status with a virtually unrestricted opportunity to become legal permanent residents and then citizens."(sited at bottom) The question must arise (it did in my mind) in other countries do they make these concessions? Absolutely not! So why does the U.S.? Because politicians who are not founded on absolute truths who have no morals or integrity look at it as the greatest opportunity to get the position they want. Yes, in effect we as U.S. citizens who speak english (and the U.S. senators with clear agendas) are allowing the culture of the U.S. to be changed. How long will America stand if all politicians fail to start developing a level of character that is vital for the position they hold, and will hold? Conversly, How long will the issue of English being the national language stand if we as Leaders take a stand? Ryan Hall Team OF Excellence Info from: http://www.heritage.org/Research/Immigration/wm1076.cfm