In Oregon fire fighter supervisors were let go because they couldn't speak Spanish, the native language of new recruits. It appears to me that Spanish may be becoming the language of America. I was on jury duty, and it was annpounced that you couldn't serve on a jury unless you spoke English. The swearing in ceremony was then done in Spanish.

Here is a blurb on the Oregon fire fighte case from "Cheat Seeking Missiles."

Yes indeed! The government bureaucrats did in fact fire the seasoned supervisors who couldn't speak Spanish instead of the untrained recruits who couldn't speak English.

Will this bizarre turn of events make Oregonians feel safer when the fires start burning?

Extrapolating, will you feel safer going into surgery, knowing the best surgeons were fired because they didn't speak the Spanish, Romanian, Urdu or Tagalog spoken by the scrub nurse?

My wife and I have recently spent a lot of time in the hospital. Most of the doctors are American, but not many of the nurses were. I had nurses from Kenya, Jamaica, Pakistan, Canada, and Mexico. There were some others who were obviously not from America, but I didn't get a chance to find out their native country.