Budget Blunderer Prints

'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.'

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

'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...'

How To Cut The Defense Budget

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

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

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

Gas Price Reads: Way Too Much.

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

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

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

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

SOARING BILL

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

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

"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!"

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

'You have to spend money to make money.'

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

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

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."

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

"I worry that more infrastructure spending will mean more schools!"