Budget Overseer Pillows

'Desperate times call for desperate measures.'

"Senator Thom is chairman of the finance committee...give him a dollar and he'll take a billion."

'What I don't understand is how all three of us managed to get the figures wrong!'

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

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

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

Fiscal cliff - US dollar falling over the edge.

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

"You need to justify your own existence first."

'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!'

"How is the budget forecast looking?"

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

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!'

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

"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

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

'I wonder how the economy is doing.'

City Finance Dept: My Way/The Highway

'Let's go home and come back next year. It's Ground Hog Deficit!'

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

"Will you stop saying 'ouch' every time I cut something out of your budget?"

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

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

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.

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

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

Congressional Budget Committee: Benefactor...Victim

BMA criticises 'Black Hole' of NHS IT spending

'So! -- You're the one who's been stealing the office supplies!'

White House Garage Sale.

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