and how much does anyone in his family receive from stock options...

The Cheney's are the most generous people to ever occupy high office. In fact, if you care to examine his tax disclosures when he took office, you will find that he donated all his Halliburton stock options to several charities, we are talking about 8 million dollars worth. In 2000 when Bush chose Cheney as his running mate, he immediately disposed of his stock options based on the notion that his occupying public office effectively was a conflict of Interest (for those of you who live in NJ, Senator Menedez used government money to support one of his low income housing projects). If you count Federal (state - which there was none) taxes along with Cheney's charitable contributions close to 70% of his income went to the goverment or charity.

Compare this percentage to any of the candidates running for public office, simply put there is no comparison. If Cheny were a Democrat (or Joe Lieberman at the time) the press would have been be singing his praises for weeks.

Praise which would have embarassed this good man!

Laurence, give me a break. When asked about the 4000+ men and women that have died in Iraq, cheney responded, "they volunteered". This coming from a man who took 5 deferments to stay out of Vietnam.(Of course he may have shot at the wrong side if he did go.) As long as this guys belly is full and he has lots of $$$ in the bank he could care less about others. 6 more months of this JERK. And it will not come soon enough.

Bush's "golf" sacrifice is the most egregious statement I ever heard any politician utter. Also, it is proved to be a falsehood because there is video of the liar teeing off months after he purportedly quit. As for Cheney, he clearly the greediest corporate prostitute who ever held office. Neither one of these two has lost so much as an hour of sleep over the needless deaths they have caused in Iraq.

Lawrence must also remember that Mr. Richard Bruce Cheney's fist act as Mr.Bush's runingmate in 2000 was to hire a lawer to prove that, though he lived in Texas, thus breaking a law that prohibits two people living in the same state to run as P. and VP., he lived in Wyoming, where he had a vacation house.

and to pt, i would recomend the number of more than one-million Iraqi's killed and two million displaced as refugees. In contrast to the 4500 GI killed in Iraq, the suffering of Iraqis is exponentially more important.

work for peace,
james

Hope he is not counting on making big bucks for speaking engagements , some how I don't think he will be in demand .

Laurence Wagman , yessirrrreeeee Cheney is a real gem of a human being isn't he ? How much has he made off Halliburton etc and the Iraq invasion / occupation hmmmmmmmm ? It is just incredible how GD stupid and completely brainless some people are , am surprised you can type frankly .

Bill, we LOVE you! Talk baby! Talk!

I bought my own Trek bike and haven't been responsible for any deaths that I know of.

Bush is a few steps removed from being a war criminal and Trek GIVES HIM a $6,000 bike. Some values there, Trek.

I sure hope Cheney doesn't think he's gonna be an astronaut either. He's way too fat! Astronaut, what an idiot!

Couldn't agree more John K! What brainless jerks thinking giving 70% of your income to Charity is better than giving 1-3% like Biden and Obama.