Budget Analyst Prints

"What I don't understand is how all three of us managed to get the figures wrong,"

Your Pizza Dollar

'Our economic forecasts are based on a complicated mathematical formula.' (Hope/Experience).

"We're over budget already and we haven't finished building the scale model."

Office of Management and Budget and Mandatory Cuts

'Our new Finance Director, Ebenezer, tells me he can start immediately on identifying areas where we can make cuts.'

"Overtime on the Humpty-Dumpty project is killing the treasury."

An Everyday Explanation of the Federal Budget.

Of course, Hal rented a car with economy gps.

'I cut myself slashing the budget!'

"Well the good news is that we did save a little money by not investing in cyber crime protection...."

I think we've got the numbers right we just don't know which ones to use... Or what order to put them in.

"Our new information management system has just worked out where we wasted most money last year. . . It was on the new information management system."

'They called it 'outsourcing'.'

TASERS...With the cost of electricity we could only afford 50 volts.

'Don't overdo the mustard, sir -- we're trying to control costs around here.'

Defense Budget: 'You could try letting the air out of the tires.'

IT departments taking all companies' money

'We just drive by and throw candy and stuff like in a parade.'

"Do me a favor, Harlow. When you greet me, stop saying 'Hello, big spender!'"

'It's the little things that add up - checking receipts, redeeming vouchers, the diamond mine at the bottom of the garden.'

Businessman sees door sign 'Department of Mismanagement and Overbudget'.

Blocked In - Republicans vs Democrats.

Company Awards - "The innovation Award goes to Henderson for living within his salary."

Delivering red ink to the Berueu of Management and Budget.

"The Budget Committee needs to know - is the moat national security or infrastructure?"

'Rumsfeld wants a leaner, more agile military thta's harder to pin down at budget hearings...'

"Who approved all this infrastructure spending for casinos?"

'The budget and accounting department has just issued a 'code red' alert. We're all to down our rose colored glasses.'

Belt tightening at the Capitol Building.

Number 2 in a series of unlikely events: "There's more money in the budget than we know what to do with so you don't need to ask me every time you just need to spend a few hundred quid."

'I don't think we can justify employing a gardener.'

"Due to budget cuts we've been forced to downsize our canine unit"

'Hello, you called and asked to speak to 'one of the clowns who manages the budget'...?'

"We conducted a survey of 85% of tax experts and questioned them about 93% of the budget and found a 67% probability that none of them knew what they were talking about."