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elehhhhna Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-02-06 02:29 PM
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Cheney Urges Americans to Save
Cheney Urges Americans to Save

Thursday March 2, 2006 3:46 PM
By JEANNINE AVERSA

WASHINGTON (AP) - Vice President Dick Cheney urged Americans Thursday to do a better job of saving and challenged policymakers to strengthen pensions and fix Social Security to help people in their golden years.

``The American dream begins with saving money and that should begin on the very first day of work,'' Cheney told a conference here exploring how to encourage people to boost savings and be better prepared for retirement.

Too often, workers are living paycheck to paycheck and are not saving sufficiently, Cheney said.



http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-5658402,00.html
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redqueen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-02-06 02:30 PM
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1. "Too often, workers are living paycheck to paycheck"
Does this IDIOT think it's BY CHOICE?

:nuke:
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wicket Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-02-06 02:34 PM
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8. No kidding
So damn infuriating!!!! :grr:
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MADem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-02-06 02:31 PM
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2. Yeah, so they can steal our dough outta the banks, likely!
Keep it in the damn mattress, the way things are going!!!
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madaboutharry Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-02-06 02:31 PM
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3. He sounds as stupid as Bush.
"...are living paycheck to paycheck and are not saving sufficiently,..." Doesn't living paycheck to paycheck mean that there isn't anything left over to save?
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acmejack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-02-06 02:31 PM
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4. The asshole spends more for breakfast than most of us make in a day
And he dares preach about saving? The unmitigated gall of this lowlife dirtbag. How offensive can this fool be?
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BOSSHOG Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-02-06 02:32 PM
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5. Bosshog urges cheney to spend
Edited on Thu Mar-02-06 02:46 PM by BOSSHOG
Shut off the spigot to Iraq and spend some of our taxdollars on our own citizens. I don't need advice from an evil bastard on how to manage my money. We do quite well dick even with impediments like you and your fellow republicans putting so many Americans in the position of working from paycheck to paycheck. Go to your undisclosed locaton and shut the fuck up.
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az chela Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-02-06 02:42 PM
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19. That goes for me too!!!! Bosshog,I couldnt have put it any better
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Webster Green Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-02-06 02:33 PM
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6. He's channeling Marie Antoinette
What an arrogant old fool.
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elehhhhna Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-02-06 02:35 PM
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10. She got a bad rap...HE should know better.
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acmejack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-02-06 02:49 PM
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23. And it wasn't cake!
She was misquoted. That's why the mob was so angry
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mrcheerful Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-02-06 02:34 PM
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7. Said by a person who hasn't a clue of how working people are
using almost every dollar on just making it through the week. Have to really hand it to the pukes for being clueless wonders.
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wtbymark Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-02-06 02:34 PM
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9. Hey Dick! Go Fuck Yourself!
-from a Vermonter who lives paycheck to paycheck
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Earth_First Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-02-06 02:35 PM
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11. These people are so far removed from reality...it disgusts me!
Edited on Thu Mar-02-06 02:36 PM by Earth_First
You tell me what you know about paying to heat your home, Mr. Cheney.
You tell me what you know about paying for health insurance, Mr. Cheney.
You tell me what you know about paying your fair share of taxes, Mr. Cheney.
You tell me what you know about paying for fuel for your automobiles, Mr. Cheney.

It's never been so eloquantly put: "Go fu*k yourself, Mr. Cheney!"
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fooj Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-02-06 03:04 PM
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25. Health Insurance...Hell, he's got an entire medical team
at his disposal 24/7! Rat bastard!

Peace.
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Katherine Brengle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-02-06 02:35 PM
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12. There isn't enough to save--
How can you put money away when you need all of the money you make just to pay your bills and put food on the table?

Classic elitist bs...
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liberal N proud Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-02-06 02:36 PM
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13. Do you think they could figure out why people are living paycheck to
paycheck?

It is because these greedy bastards have done everything they can to break the middle class and poor in this country.
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FreakinDJ Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-02-06 02:37 PM
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14. America urges Cheney to save .... our jobs and stop outsoursing
Edited on Thu Mar-02-06 02:39 PM by FreakinDJ
DUH !!!!

You Wacko Puke Dick ....

Get a clue, we need jobs to have a savings.

God I feel like I'm in the cross hairs of his shot gun now just for speaking the truth. What is it going to be Dick - 8 shot pellets or the NSA tapping my phone for speaking the truth
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laruemtt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-02-06 02:37 PM
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15. no problema, dicky.
i'm sure the bank will understand why we'll have to miss every other mortgage payment so we can save more, er, any $.
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napi21 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-02-06 02:40 PM
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16. Dickie, I PROMISE to save every penny you give me!
Here's my address, and I'll even give you my Paypal address so you can save $ on a stamp.

Thanks so much for being so generous to me. I know my retirement will now be much more comfortable after the growth of all that money you give me.:nuke:
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Norquist Nemesis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-02-06 02:40 PM
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17. Hold on! Didn't they tell us to go out and shop!?!
Keep the economy humming! Shop! Buy! Go to the mall! See a movie! Have fun!

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az chela Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-02-06 02:40 PM
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18. Hard to save
When the government pisses away our money for their benefit and uses our tax money to do it
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Yollam Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-02-06 02:43 PM
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20. more complete and utter cluelessness from repukes.
Edited on Thu Mar-02-06 02:45 PM by Yollam
Most people who are living from paycheck to paycheck and not saving are doing so because the cost of housing, gas, utilities and food are astronomical and the bottom half of Americans' incomes have not even come close to keeping up, in large part because of REPUBLICAN CEOs trying to keep payroll costs down, in spite of record profits, and because of REPUBLICAN unwillingness to raise the paltry minimum wage. It is not a matter of people being spendthrifts, as this idiot implies.

Most people here in the SF Bay area spend more than half their income on housing costs, when most budget advisors say that should be less than 1/3. Health insurance can easily eat up 1/4 of a typical worker's income.

I suppose Cheney thinks these people should economize by living in their cars so that they can sock away a few bucks?

God I hate these people.
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riona Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-02-06 02:46 PM
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21. unbelievable disconnect
hmmm..democracy for the whole world, everyone able to save enough for the golden years, honest politicians, no global warming, corporations policing themselves. Oh my, where is this planet?
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JuniperLea Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-02-06 02:49 PM
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22. Save what?
Dumbass. There's barely enough for the necessities and I'm not living that well! Dumbfuck needs to wake up and get a clue as to what it's like to be Joe American.


Losers.
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Hubert Flottz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-02-06 02:52 PM
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24. It's ALL your fault if you didn't save anything and you
trusted your government!
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