cuchulainn
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The forms/translators are a drop in the reservoir when compared to the cost of having the regulations in the first place. It's not the bilingual stuff that's costing all the money (insert small-government spiel #453 here).DocZinn: It's a huge drain on the budget when you consider all the forms and all the interpreters in all the languages they support. Then there are (at least here in California) the burdens on business, for example landlords are required to have all their forms on hand in seven different languages. Breaking the budget? Well, no single item is breaking the budget, but this is helping.
My comment wasn't necessarily directed at you. You asked pax why some of the posts here were xenophobic. I was saying that some of them meet the definition of xenophobic because the writers clearly are threatened by the supposed loss of American culture to “the others.”DocZinn: And where did you get the idea I feel threatened?
These threads are full of variations of "They ain't like us, grrrr!" That's xenophobia no matter how you dress it up. Even if the xenophobic fears are justified, they're still xenophobic.