It had been almost five years since I last saw him. He had been a successful business man, even though he had not known a single word of English when he left. Now that I see him, he is unrecognizable. All the courage I had seen in his face seemed as though it never existed. He walked up our poorly built patio, tripping on loose pieces here and there. When he got to me, I almost broke out into a sob. His face was so blotchy, the freckles on his cheeks were non-existent. "Estaba tan cerca, tan cerca," (I was so close, so close) he kept repeating, tears streaming down his face. I couldn’t say anything. Why had this happened? Did they not see he was someone who made the United States a better place? Did they not see how successful he was? Three weeks later, the…show more content… He states that translators usually cost up to 15 million dollars a year. He claims that official English would "save billions in federal spending's" (Brice Why English Should...). This, however, is not the case. If the United States were to make English official, the companies that are based on any other language would go bankrupt. And if these companies are thriving in the U.S., the economic value of the U.S. would go down as well. For example, in a report done by Geoscape it states that "Hispanic businesses are growing at more than 15 times the rate of all U.S. firms" (Geoscape report...). This also brings to mind that since they are so huge, their contribution to the United States, money wise, is also great. The report states that "Hispanic businesses contribute nearly $668 billion in revenue to the national economy" ( Geoscape report...). This is more than the annual cost of a translator, so instead of improving the economy, taking away translators and making English the official language will bring more destruction in the financial state of the
