Budget Challengers Mugs

"I shop to overcome the depression I feel from being in debt!"

'According to the budget, we'll have to count on body heat to keep the offices warm.'

"Defense budget... Do you have any idea how much catnip $700 billion would buy?"

'The scariest story I know is escalating health care costs.'

'If only you could do this with a cow once in a week, we'd save a lot of money for the food delivery service, Rupert!'

"Sorry, new style pain killer. It's the cut-backs I'm afraid."

Little Taxes.

Med. Soc Sec. Can we agree on anything to reduce the deficit other than a bake sale?

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

'Remember, Henderson - A penny saved is a departmental oversight.'

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

"The cuts have made things even worse...It's the worst part of the job. Having to spend so much time with people at the very end of the tether...people with no hope, no optimism for the future, people in a state of despair!"

It's the only crossing guard they can afford.

Be flamboyant-today living within your means is mucking-up the economy.

"We've been told that we can't leave patients on trolleys in the corridors, so we are moving them into the car park."

"We have no funding for disasters that have not yet happened..."

'...And then, my income and outgo collided!'

'There's no money to provide 'Care in the Community'...but we have just enough to move him into the carpark!'

IRS. Pay Taxes Here. Your payment isn't all that substantial, sir, when you consider how much of it will be wasted.

"I've had enough of this diet. It's costing me to eat less."

Check out the tuitions on these college brochures. Let's see. $50,000 a year, plus fees?! If college professors are so bleepin' brilliant � You'd think they'd have fixed such a glaring typo! It is fixed. Against us!

How America Was Re-Won

"And Boris caims all his spending plans will be financed by winnings on investing £1000 a week in Eurolottery tickets..."

Look thru the hole to see budget savings: 'I don't see anything in there...'

'Ladies and gentlemen, I must warn you that when I come to hammer out the budget details, I do not fool around.'

'We have to make massive cuts so we can reduce debt.... which will cut into growth which is needed so we can make massive cuts...'

"The endless string of budget cuts are making things impossible. It's the worst part of this job. Having to spread so much time with people at the very end of their tether...people with no hope, no optimism for the future...people in a state of despair! A

Road to nowhere, made possible by surplus highway funds.

Shifting Resources

"It's a reprieve...but we have him strapped in the chair!"

'I hope my application for a block grant is approved. Right now, my kindergarten class is using frozen waffles for stacking and building.'

Fiscal Hypochondria

'Due to cuts, the school will only be open 6 to 10 on Sunday night.'

High price of food

European budget has a hole in it.