Austerity Observer Mugs

GAS PRICES AT PUMP

'Taxes are going up, but that's no excuse to earn less, Mr. Syms.'

'The government's right. Not counting, food, clothing, energy, shelter, health care, or transportation, inflation is hardly going up.'

'The great thing is, the poor won't be able to squander it on luxuries such as dignity, equality and hope!'

'Stocks dropped on the news that governments can fool some people come of the time,but not all the people all of the time.'

'Money is a bit tight at the moment, so instead of cash we wondered whether you'd settle for 20% more meaningless protestations of how much we value you?'

'All right, gentlemen, this is the current picture of our growth industry!'

"Business is so bad even my hotcakes aren't selling like hotcakes."

'I've been sent by the board to ask if you'd be willing to cut your symbolic one dollar a year salary to fifty cents.'

"Victims of out-sorcery."

'Grandpa, what was manufacturing?'

' Oh no! I'm being repossessed! '

'In the economy, money is the lure.'

"This just in! Due to downsizing, the mega-merger of Consolidated Industries and Humungous Corporation has been changed to a simple bankruptcy."

'Why don't you start a small business with a loan from a bank?'

"He downgraded Apple."

'Get out there and keep your job!'

'Would you please wipe away this difference?'

Exchange Rate.

Tata: Goodbuy or Goodbye?

Euro against the Dollar.

'I'm afraid there's been a 23% cut in the 'empathy and compassion' budget so you'll have to tell him to sod off now!'

'Commerical real estates' man excited by peak in sleeping 'Rental rates' monitor

Business isn't booming.

'Oh, just sitting around, waiting for the next computer generated trading bubble to burst, sending the market into death spiral.'

"Fellow M.B.A. graduates of the Class of '91—hey, what can I say?"

'We've completed the spending review and there won't be any.'

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