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More Savings? Well Make It Worthwhile.

The last thing we need to hear on a chilly Monday morning is the fresh chorus of moaners going on about the poor savings records of Australians.

Figures just out show that as a nation, we save only 2.5 cents in the dollar. Some people must be lucky to be able to afford that because I'm stuffed if I can.

The boffins, and those in the know, say our savings have plummeted - even from 10 years ago - when instead of the current $9 billion, we had some $15 billion in banks.

Now these facts and figures are all very well, but have the moral piggy-bank stockers ever thought about why people may not be saving more.

• It could be that they like buying those new-fangled DVD-thingies.
  
  
• Howabout they like eating out (and if you copped the food we do here at the home, that's no damn surprise).
  
  
• Could it be that the compulsory 9% supperannuation has taken people's mind of that passbook account.
  
  
• Maybe ... just maybe ... people hate those grubby, corporate, anti-social pack of soulless tossers called bankers so much they don't want their loot tied up with them.
  
  
• On the same subject, people may not be able to put more money into the banks because they can't afford the poxy charges!

Now all the above are perfectly valid reasons for not saving big bikkies, but I reckon there's just one more. And it should be pretty damn obvious to even the most obtuse of save-more-money know alls.

We will endeavour to save more money and make the worriers sleep better, if the powers-that-be will STOP TAXING THE PIDDLING 3% INTEREST WE GET!!!!!!!

You greedy a-holes stop people even thinking about saving because it just isn't worth while. So rack off.

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