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Several years ago, I spent some time in Thailand and I looked at jobs in the paper and found out that most jobs paid about $2 per hour but some, where English was required paid $4. Yesterday Senator Klobuchar changed her mind and said English should not be the official language of the US. This is what happens when politics gets in the way of common sense. When the early immigrants came to American they settled in groups in various cities and the first generation had a difficult time with the language. There was never a large enough number in any one group to cause the country to make exceptions to language. More recently so many Spanish speaking immigrants have arrived that they have caused a change in the language and thus we have dual languages on many business phone lines. While this may be politically correct it is not helpful to those new immigrants when it comes to employment. All schools have English second language courses and student in those classes want to learn and this will help them to get better paying jobs. This will help the students to help other family members to learn English and economics dictates that the emphasis should be on learning English.