Frist considers the "typical" family as one which makes $64K/yr.

[Skidmore]

From yesterday's Republic press conference. I'd say he's highballing typical.

[Clark2008]

1. Especially in Tennessee!!

What an idiot.

I can see where that may be typical in parts of California or New York, but I'm guessing the average family in Tennessee makes between 35K and 45K - and that's with two incomes (or at least an income and a half).

[Clovis Sangrail]

2. $37,925 was the median in 2003

as per http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/47000.html

[Selteri]

4. I'm not even going to comment on how many college gradates I know

Who's jobs pay 10 bucks an hour, or who have two degrees and still get paid the same pitious rate.

[etherealtruth]

6. Add me to your count!

[Glorfindel]

9. Such a pity; education was once meant to make one a better person

now it's all about money-grubbing. In fact, EVERYTHING to the Repukes is about money-grubbing. It's disgusting and morally untenable. After all, anyone can make money. It's only a question of what one is willing to do for it. I'm sure there are teenagers on the streets of NYC and LA making $1,000.00 a day, but does this make them admirable people? I would rather flip burgers with a shred of honor than be a successful pimp with a great string of "ho's."

[GeorgeGist]

5. Which of course compares unfavorably with...

the per captita income of $31,107 (eg. the average family of four should have an income of $124428 in Tennessee)

http://bea.gov/bea/newsrelarchive/2006/spi0306.xls

[screembloodymurder]

11. That's typical Christian family

of white folk.

[warrens]

18. Lotta dirt poor, dirt stupid Xtian families too

That figure is just delusional.

[flordehinojos]

3. six months worth at any area "project" would do him a world of good

[Bozita]

7. Frist to be on GMA this morning

from a post in GDP.

[independentpiney]

8. Hey, according to my soon to be ex

The average 45 y/o man makes 'at least 150k/year!

[Waya]

12. Where? I'll move there......

....We just recently moved from Ohio to PA because the part of Ohio we lived in considered $6.50/hr an hour above average and if you had a job that paid $7.50/hr or $8/hr you was considered upper class......

[newblewtoo]

10. How about this one:

YORK, Maine -- A final draft of what Town Planner Steve Burns calls "a pretty unworkable" work-force housing ordinance will be brought before the selectmen for a public hearing two weeks from today, Sept. 18. <excerpt>

The hearing will cap what has been a particularly gnarly selectmen's review of the ordinance. The ordinance would allow for higher density to make it affordable for its target audience, those earning between $59,000 and $95,000 for a family of four. Selectmen and members of the public have raised many concerns about it, causing the Housing Authority and Burns to go back to the drawing board several times. <excerpt> http://www.seacoastonline.com/news/09042006/mainenews-ph-y-yha.html

Amazing.

[spanone]

13. Frist, like Bush*, was a privileged child. They know no other life.

[LynneSin]

14. So what about the 'families' who don't make that much a year

what are they - losers who have no right to bog down 'democracy' in Washington DC?
Fodder for the front line in Iraq and future wars
Shit-out-of-luck

[tinfoilinfor2005]

15. He runs around with doctors and senators

so he figures if he subtracts a hundred grand, that should be in the ball park for average Joes.

As my four year old would say, "What a noron,"

[ContraBass Black]

16. I wish.

[Finder]

17. He probably has stats to back it up too...

since statistics are easy to manipulate. The mean and the median come up with very different numbers. Here is an example if you are interested(from wiki)that shows a mean of $50g and a median of $5.00 using the same data.


Suppose 19 paupers and one billionaire are in a room. Everyone removes all money from their pockets and puts it on a table. Each pauper puts $5 on the table; the billionaire puts $1 billion (that is, $109) there. The total is then $1,000,000,095. If that money is divided equally among the 20 persons, each gets $50,000,004.75. That amount is the mean (or "average") amount of money that the 20 persons brought into the room. But the median amount is $5, since one may divide the group into two groups of 10 persons each, and say that everyone in the first group brought in no more than $5, and each person in the second group brought in no less than $5. In a sense, the median is the amount that the typical person brought in. By contrast, the mean (or "average") is not at all typical, since no one present—pauper or billionaire—brought in an amount approximating $50,000,004.75.

[ThomWV]

19. Median Household Income is $43,600

The information was released last week, so how on earth can he possibly say that it is twenty thousand dollars more than that? What fucking planet is he living on?