Video: Rapid Fire Q&A with Rand Paul | "Glenn Beck Program"

[mello]

 

[Feelgood]

Not entirely sure how I feel about this interview. Rand seemed a little weak in his replies.

 

[robskicks]

glenn beck is fatter

 

[mhad]

Official language should not be English? I'm surprised by that. Someone teach me something and explain the viewpoint to me please, I've always thought the answer should be yes.

 

[CaptUSA]

Official language should not be English? I'm surprised by that. Someone teach me something and explain the viewpoint to me please, I've always thought the answer should be yes.

I'm not sure the role of government is to tell you what language you need to speak. That's a role for culture and society. No need for moar government here.

 

[ds21089]

Official language should not be English? I'm surprised by that. Someone teach me something and explain the viewpoint to me please, I've always thought the answer should be yes.

Yet another issue that wouldnt even be an issue without government involvement. If all the incentives to come here were removed, we wouldnt have so many illegals here to even debate another language. Regardless, if there's communities of people here legally who choose to speak a different language or people who want to make up a new language, what right do we have to stop them? Official as in "a standard for all" sounds federal. This is why a one size fits all approach never works - just like with school curriculum. If there is a community of people speaking one language in an area, why should they be forced to learn another instead of having local people there make their own curriculum? Using force whether it be for monetary or educational purposes is wrong and the antithesis of a free society.

 

[Jonderdonk]

glenn beck is fatter

He's actually a lot skinnier in real life.

 

[mhad]

Yet another issue that wouldnt even be an issue without government involvement. If all the incentives to come here were removed, we wouldnt have so many illegals here to even debate another language. Regardless, if there's communities of people here legally who choose to speak a different language or people who want to make up a new language, what right do we have to stop them? Official as in "a standard for all" sounds federal. This is why a one size fits all approach never works - just like with school curriculum. If there is a community of people speaking one language in an area, why should they be forced to learn another instead of having local people there make their own curriculum? Using force whether it be for monetary or educational purposes is wrong and the antithesis of a free society.

So should a court clerk have to learn every possible language on the planet in order to do any legal paperwork? Or should there be one standard/official language for official purposes? Just because it is official, people can still use other languages in their homes or businesses or in private. An official language just means being used for official purposes.

 

[Foreigner]

Official language should not be English? I'm surprised by that. Someone teach me something and explain the viewpoint to me please, I've always thought the answer should be yes.

German was also discussed as an official language in the early days due to there being almost as many german-origin immigrants. Another popular viewpoint was that there should be no official language. Also, native americans have their own languages, should they be forced to learn english? California had cities and a spanish-speaking people when it fell into US hands. Should all those be forced to learn english? I can accept that some will say yes to that, if your definition of official language is: Will a letter or application to the government in this language be granted an answer in the same language. At the same time, the US is a federation of states. It's not unfathomable that Louisiana would have french as an official language, and California spanish. (it does, btw.)

Sure, a common language benefits all, but at the same time, more people should learn a second and third language. It gets easier for each language learned. For instance, I can read a dutch newspaper despite not having learned a word of it, because I know scandinavian languages, german and english, and dutch is sort of a combination of those with wierd prononciation.

 

[nikcers]

We don't even speak English we speak American. Our next generations are going to more likely be learning computer programming languages. Do you even speak computer?