my connection with the tea party

[Jester]

Furthermore, over 17% of our population earns below the median income here, only 5% of theirs does there.

Is this Denmark, or Lake Wobegon, where all the kids are above average? 50% of the population earns at or below the median income, everywhere, always. 50% earns at or above the median, too. That's the *definition* of median.

What you presumably mean to say, assuming you're reading wikipedia, is that 17% of the US population earns less than *half* the median income, whereas that is only 5% in Denmark.

-Jester