10 Things I would do if I were President: #9-English as the official language

America is without question the best place to live on Earth. No other country offers the freedoms or provides the wealth of opportunities that citizens of our nation have access too. However, we do have one fundamental flaw in our nation: cultural identity. Now, it can be said that America's cultural identity is in the great "melting pot" of nationalities and ethnic groups which immigrated here by the millions at the turn of the 20th century, but no longer do we need these immigrants for economic stability and growth as we did over a century ago. As a young nation of a little over a 100 years old back then it was legitimate to say that America was still searching for it's identity. Today that problem seems to persist-despite our vast growth in population and technological advancement-and at the core of this problem, I believe, is a lack of a National language...I was unable to locate any specific data which suggests that the U.S.A. is the only country on the planet which has no official language, but I feel confident in saying that we are the only industrialized nation on Earth with no official language...Language (i.e. how we communicate with each other locally) is the first precursor we use when identifying someone to a particular culture or ethnic background because it is normally the first evidence we have which can indicate from where someone is from. Around America you can find a wide variety of accents-from the bland west coast, to the drawl of the south, all over America you can identify where we are from (in general) by how we speak the "English" language. Languages have helped defined and provide cultural identities for as long as human's have walked the earth. French, Spanish, Italian, Japanese, Mandarin (Basic) Chinese, Creole; the list is as long as the separate cultures on our planet and all of those just mentioned are national languages of their respective countries, but not in America. Nope, apparently we are too good for just one language-despite the fact that English (American really, English is spoken in England) is used for all of our legal documents and was adopted as the official "language of international business" sometime after WWII when America proved its military and economic dominance over the rest of the world...We have no true cultural identity as we head through the 21st century and adopting English (American) as our official language would not only go a long way towards this goal, but would also save our nation Billions of dollars as well as go a long way towards curbing the illegal immigrant problem we currently face...Is this a touchy subject? You damn sure better believe it, but it is one I would have no problem facing and one that would definitely be a part of my campaign.