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."

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

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

'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

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

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

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

European Union: Entering a prohibitive tax zone.

'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.

Congressional Budget Committee: Benefactor...Victim

HS2

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

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

'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!'

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

Where tax money goes...

Overdraft limit.

'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.'

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

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

'Wait a minute....!

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

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

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