Budget Controller Mugs

"This is Thompson, he has a black belt in budget control."

"This is not permanent...we'll be back as soon as things start to look up."

"I need to see your budget proposal."

"The president demands that staff take responsibility for failures, and the multi-trillion deficit is down to YOU!"

"I can always tell when Philip is working on family finances. A 'cursor' appears on both sides of the computer screen."

"At $4 a dozen, it's hard to balance a career and a family."

'If by 'great', you mean 'terrible', then yes, we have plenty of great beers for under $4.00 a six-pack.'

'On the plus side we've saved money by getting all the numbers on one graph.'

"You need to justify your own existence first."

"At these tuition prices an acceptance letter is pretty much a denial."

"Genius is 1% inspiration, 99% budget allocation."

"How is the budget forecast looking?"

Unable to afford scaffolding, Dave ties plungers on his feet to get up a wall.

Smart card.

"What comes after zillion?"

And this is a little ditty I wrote called 'the third quarters profit and loss account' ...Colin often wished that he'd followed his first love and taken up a career as a musician

Economy.

'We grow our food, have solar energy, use bikes instead of car...now if we could only stop buying knickknacks!'

'Looks like we'll have to break into the piggy bank to find our endowment funding.'

Keep the econoimy moving

Excess Baggage: Sooner or later all those vacation bills come due.

City Finance Dept: My Way/The Highway

"I know we said we would get you a laptop.. but this will have to do until business gets better."

"Well you said you wanted a simple, cheap solution!" (IT Solutions).

'It's a type of credit card that self destructs when it reaches the limit I've set for you.'

'Henry, I'm here to trim back your budget.'

You can't fool all of the people all of the time, especially with our advertising budget.

'Surely you can manage on your salary!'

". . . We're being sucked into the UK national debt!"

BMA criticises 'Black Hole' of NHS IT spending

'Wow, my own desk!'

"We're going to have to save some money...and one way is to rewrite the rules on expenses claim."

'What if we televise government budget hearings and make them pay-per-view?'

"I asked my friends over to see how much the adults are leaving us to pay off!"