Why dosn't congress pass the bill H R 997 to make english the official language of the U S.This is A very important bill t0 the future of the U S. as A nation.For one thing it would cost us billions if we had to print all public documents in multiple languages of which there are at least 40 or more.If public documents were printed in one ore two extra languages that would be discrimination and would lead to A lot lawsuits. Last year there was A bill itroduced in congress that would have made all businesses furnish Interpreters for people that could not understand english.that was A rediculous bill that would have forced A lot of companies out of business .If a ny one that dose not understand english needs an Interpreter it should be up to them to furnish the interpreter and pay for them. I was asked what we should do to create more jobs . That is A tough question . I just heard that we lost another 85000 jobs last month. We never should have lost the jobs in the first place. The unions forced the wages and benefits up so high that we are priced out of the world markets . We are importing most of our manufactured goods .That is adding to our trade deficit . We can not compete with other countries where they have cheap labor. that is where our jobs have gone. The only way I can see to get our jobs back would be to lower our minimum wage back down to $5.00 and the rest of the wages accordingly Start some factories and atart manufacturing some of our own products.then impliment my recomended tax increase on individuals one percent for every one hundred thousand dollars after the first two hundred fifty thousand up to 90 percent. That would lower the cost of living on the lower income people and they would have to pay less taxes. That would benefit 90 percent of the public help our economy and get the country back on A sound financial basis. My opinion by John Zilverberg.