Well I figured I'd throw down some thoughts here. I think I've already made my feelings clear about second languages in the U.S. but I feel reiteration would still be good
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Ok, I'm gonna focus on one thing here, that being American bilingualism. In short, I'm not buying most of your argument. One with funding...well, honestly, the thing is, we do have funding to do a lot more than we are doing. We just don't know how to do it. As a big example, if instead of throwing tons of money into remediation we kept people at the level which is most fitting for them and only had as much remediation as necessary with THAT system (a lot less), there'd be a lot of money saved right there. Two, which mandatory second language? Well, the reason Spanish keeps coming up as that is since it's the only logical answer. As for people not learning English because there's a second language being used on a regular basis, uh, people don't learn it anyway. There'd be basically no difference in that sense, and anyway, when people need to pass English plus at least one more language exam before graduation (most likely Spanish), you bet that Spanish-speaking kids will learn the language. That or not graduate
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AIDS just seems too perfect for me as a disease, in terms of something that can be used as a control mechanism for people. Its too much of a nice little present to the Pharmaceutical Industry in terms of subsidies for those drugs. Me? If I had AIDS Id almost rather be dead than take AZT or whatever.
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