Different is not Bad

I have been seeing and hearing a lot of 'Speak English or get the hell out of my country" sentiments lately and I would like to comment on that. 

I would like to remind everyone that this land we live on was not yours to begin with.  Remember that whole slaughter thing we started?  'Whites' were the original immigrants and not all them spoke English either.  (Polish, Czech, Russian, French, etc.)   While immigration reform is certainly a political issue and rightly so, it is also a human issue and that's what I'll be focusing on here.  "Go back to the shit hole country you came from" is something you are not just posting on a website, it is something you are saying about a PERSON.  PEOPLE speak Spanish and other languages.  PEOPLE take the jobs you won't take.  ASSUMING that just because someone speaks another language they are here illegally is just ignorant.  My advice to anyone who uses this kind of rhetoric or language is get it together and stop being such a bigot!  How can we ever unite as a country and deal with the real issues (income inequality, corporate/political corruption, the military/prison industrial complexes, etc.) if we are constantly being divided?  We are all PEOPLE and we have more power as a whole than we ever will apart. 

A Question for Mitt Romney

Recently on the Jay Leno Show, Mitt Romney said that people with pre existing conditions should not be able to get insurance coverage if they have not been consistently covered.  But that if they have had coverage consistently through other carriers, they should not be denied coverage.  Jay did a good job of following up on that statement, but no one asked this question.  If the Affordable Care Act allows a child to remain on their parent's insurance until the age of 26 and then required them to have coverage going forward through the individual mandate, wouldn't this solve the problem of a person not being insured until they were sick?  Wouldn't this mean that a person should conceivably be covered for their whole life?   Wouldn't that solve Mitt's 'hypothetical problem'?  But I guess that's a 'gotchya' question so it can't be asked to Mitt directly.