[Jims5543]

Living in or near South Florida I have seen countless cases of this happening. My wifes best friend is Puerto Rican but cannot speak spanish. She can understand it if its spoken to her but she cannot speak it fluently. She had a hell of a time finding employment because of this. You have to be bilingual to work in Miami/ Dade County.

I love the hispanic culture, I love the flavor it gives to South Florida, but, I cannot understand why they refuse to learn to speak english. Back in the old days immigrants would work their butts off to learn english and were proud to be able to come to America to start a life.

I walked into a McDonalds in Dade City 12 years ago and the menus were in Spanish. It was a huge problem that I wanted to order in English. I had a easier time communicating in Mexico that I did in Miami.

It's sad when the State government considers making spanish an official language. There was a group in Miami that wanted to change the street signs to spanish a few years ago, it got shot down.

Its sad someone would lose their job for speaking english in America, you have to wonder if there is more to this?