HMmmm, "Common Core," math has been around longer than we first believed.

hprinze & Alicia - are we only to believe what others tell us to believe? hprinze must be homosexual if he can characterize my comments as naive since he/she would have to be speaking from personal experience to make that observation. I believe that people ARE born homosexual; it isn't a "lifestyle choice" at all. The folks I sympathize with are the ones born one sex who are really the opposite sex. I've known two men who have gone through the entire change and are living very contentedly as females today but it has been an incredibly tough road for them and their families. "Judge not ..."

HMmmm, so, a couple making $70K a year pays in $8,680 per year at 12.4%. If they held that level for a 30 year career they'd pay in $260,400. Not too shabby.
If they collected $1,294/month at age 65 they'd back every cent they had contributed in about 16 years. After age 81 they're getting someone else's money. And, how do you make ends meet if you're used to bringing home $5,833 per month & you're now living(?) on only $1,300? Somehow I think they could have done better with that $200K than putting it in Socialist Security. I now yield the field to the math majors who will show me how wrong I am.

And, being homosexual yourself, you are more than qualified to make that observation. Yes?

Mmmm, I don't think the poster would like either country. They don't have 99 weeks of employment compensation, EBT cards, Obamacare, etc. Canada has Socialist Health Care; we have Socialist security, maybe that could be considered a tradeoff.

Isn't an "armature" part of an electric motor or generator? I know the language is changing but that just doesn't make sense.

I must have missed something. What percentage of the U.S. population is homosexual? How does one homosexual couple adversely affect the relationship of the 98% that are heterosexual? If the two guys who live next door get married it doesn't make me homosexual and it doesn't affect my physical attraction to my wife. Anyone heard the "Live & Let Live" thing? If you are not homosexual it's pretty tough to make judgement calls on those who are. "So before you abuse, criticize and choose, walk a mile in my shoes." With apologies to whoever recorded the song.

Actually I have just started reading the book and it details how we've already lost America to C*******m. Barry Soetoro is just the latest step on the road to the full takeover. Both Ike and Kennedy handed Stalin & Kruschev anything they demanded in hopes of appeasing them. Didn't help but the freight train of Socialism is at full throttle in America today. We lost a 19 year old nephew in Afghanistan in 2003 and it wasn't worth it. He would have done more good in the world with his life than all of the Islamic wing nuts alive today. Obamacare will lead to single payer which is what Socialist have always been out to achieve. Really h**e to be so negative but the only way to solve a problem is to begin by admitting you have one.

23%? That many? I guess it would be possible to sell refrigerators to Eskimos after all.

I'm a 71 year old ex-drunk living in the Democratic hell of WA. We have 5 kids and 10 grandkids between us and both believe that America ceased to exist on Jan 20, 2009. Read the book, "None Dare Call it Treason," if you dare.