Budget Hounds Mugs

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

"Who's got the hammer?"

"We were able to retire 6 years early by canceling cable & eliminating anything fun."

What's wrong with the computer you've got?"

"Gas. Regular. Premium. Super. You don’t want to know."

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

'I'm afraid the cuts are beginning to bite!'

"Can you give me a haircut that says, 'If you mess with my budget I'll rip out your soul, wring it like a dish towel, and drink it from a teacup'?"

'I suppose we've got to keep a sense of perspective. The Greeks waste our money, the French merely spend it.'

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

"This is the World Bank? Somehow, I had pictured it differently."

"I'm on a tight budget. Make it look like I cut at myself."

Budget

Preliminary Price Tag: $5,000,000,000

'As the government sees it, the U.S. budget would be fine if more deficit earners like you, Mr. Wald, go on the ball!'

European Union: Entering a prohibitive tax zone.

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

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

'Our new simplified energy bills just have a few options starting with 'Grossly inflated' and progressing to the premium 'Bloodsucker' package. . .'

Benefit mistakes cost one billion a year. Well in our defence we did get a lot of the numbers correct,they just weren't in the right order.

"Hired! You're just what we need in our budget office!"

HS2

Company profit making scheme - Jenkins, you owe us £327.95.

Overdraft limit.

Congressional Budget Committee: Benefactor...Victim

Where tax money goes...

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

'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!'

'Our expenses have decreased 20 per cent since we started refilling our own ink jet cartridges.'

'Aluminum siding will be used to cut costs in restoration at the U.S. Capitol.'

'I believe the use of elastic- bands is down to the new government defence cut-backs!'

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

It's the same ingredients and aftertaste as stimulus 1..."

"The figures are accurate. We've rounded-off to the nearest billion."

'We've completed the spending review and there won't be any.'