Budget Blunderer Gifts

'I need another raise so I can pay for the car that I bought to celebrate my last raise.'

"Basically, your new job here at the Treasury Department implementing the bailout is simple, Grayson, just grab and armful of money and run..."

'You earned this corner office by cutting corners...'

"Everything's gone up."

'As part of our alternative budget management strategy we've got Tim on 'Hail Marys' in here and Geoff sacrificing a goat to Woden next door!'

'Well, maybe upteen zillion was too general a cost estimate.'

City Centre Development - "...We've spent all the money on the model."

'I need affordable daycare now!'

'If the universe and everything in it is expanding, how come our budget gets shrunk all the time?'

"Times are perfect for us masochists!..."

"Sorry, I'm late. I didn't realize how much credit you had on your card."

'I seem to have brought the wrong brief case, your honor.'

'The popularity polls love what you've done with the budget deficit....moving the decimal one point to the left.'

How To Cut The Defense Budget

'The hospital needs to cut its drug budget...Mrs Miggins will be seeing what she can do for the Oncology department with hot twigs and frogspawn...'

'Yes, I think you better had ask Santa for it. Because there's no way I could afford to buy it.'

"'Kchow! Kchow! The roscoe spoke twice, and Mike dodged behind a-' Hang on, wrong book."

'There's not much of an incentive after taxes.'

'I know the marketing budget is stretched...but I still think we need professional models!'

"Sometimes I get the crazy feeling that he blames us for the budget overrun."

Gas Price Reads: Way Too Much.

Principal with 'budget cuts' in-tray and 'creative solutions' out-tray.

'On my salary, microeconomics is all I can afford.'

"This is your social worker Mrs Bigworth, she's brought your care package."

'Am I an additional cost or an incidental expense?'

SOARING BILL

"Before we start planning our next brilliant foray into the global economy, I suggest we first figure out how we're going to pay our local electric bill!"

"We’ve been told to cut the drugs budget so in future Louella here will be chanting away your pain."

'You have to spend money to make money.'

There is not much left after deductions and taxes, is there, Rodney?

"This project was a mismanaged rush job and woefully underfunded, but we did finish it on time and under budget."

Man Struggling with Taxes/Clothing/Medical/Misc/Food/Shelter/Education.

"I should warn you, dear. I won't be able to meet my quarterly projection."

He's a financial analyst. He's running the numbers for his latest project. C'mon! You can do better than this! Running the numbers didn't give him the needed results, so he's trying something else. Mmm, creamy. I like this. Sometimes you just have to fudge the numbers.

"Yes, that's our bathroom. We're a startup, so plumbing and running water is a luxury."