Let me begin by denoting this is an "American/English" biased issue that might well apply to other peoples and should be considered in that fashion. Just substitute your own nation/language(s) into the logic.

I stumbled upon the DoNotCall register regarding the FTC's online process and registered my phone with the government's program. While there, I noted a special section for those who required their information En Español.

Although I have no negative feelings about Spanish or those who speak it, I am gobsmacked by the lack of equal opportunity. Here's what I think:

For those of you who do not speak English or Spanish, PLEASE complain to your congressman that you are not receiving equal opportunity as the English/Spanish speaking and want all government communication presented in your language of choice as well. Since there are over 750 languages in daily use, you can imagine the instruction "press 749 for Aragonese." Since Aragonese is spoken in Aragon Spain, not even all Spanish peoples are satisfied with "press 2 for Spanish."

For those of you who think the idea of the U.S. Government trying to speak in tongues...(as if they weren't incomprehensible already) is a silly irony...but see a need for translation at times, let me introduce you to a free online translator of text and even websites:

http://babelfish.altavista.com/

Try it! Also if you didn't know AltaVista, just know that AltaVista developed the first search able, full-text database on the World Wide Web in 1995 and was THE search engine of its day. (otherwise you'd have no search capability via Yahoo, Google, AskJeeves, AllTheWeb, etc.)
Gemmelsmerch!

And for those of you who are innovative, imagine that instead of spending millions reproducing information in Spanish (and whatever language comes after that ad infinitum) , our government instead funded a project to build a universal translator for the world...much like GPS serves the world.

Oh, one more thing. Spanish speaking people have some of the richest cultures on this planet and their inclusion is essential.


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The rant is finished :
se acaba el rant; rant is beëindigd; le rant est fini; das rant wird beendet; το rant είναι τελειωμένο; il rant è rifinito; o rant é terminado ; rant закончено ; oh the heck with this - where is that universal translator. Just searching the options to find your language is exhausting.

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But that's just my opinion. I could be wrong.