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Shifting Resources

"Gee, thanks pal."

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

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

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

'Psst! Wanna Buy A Democracy?'

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

In Which the CEO Takes a Meeting with His Pet Senator

'I said we've got to lift up our numbers! I did not say to turn a loss of 150.000,- into a loss of 280.000,-!!'

"Let's give him a few minutes to grieve. His idea of taxing the air taxpayers breath was rejected."

'The operation we want you to do is to remove 25 from our budgets.'

"Yes dear. But, I don't think you're actually supposed to dispose of your disposable income."

The Hypocrisy of the Smoking Ban

"There's no getting away from the numbers....only by forgetting holidays, giving up drink, the cinema, meals out and socialising...will we be able to afford any quality of life when we retire."

Tax Cuts Watering the Economy

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

'Of course, that bid's just an estimate.'

"Afraid we can't help dear, too many other calls on the public purse!"

House of Lords Resists Reform

'Take up thy tents and walk!'

I Want to be a Drone President

Shared Poverty

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

Homeless man being offered pre-approved mortgage loan

'Before they give us the funding they want to see a 3 year blind study, peer reviewed and carried out by a recognised academic authority . . .'

'They're getting serious about the budget deficit.'

"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!"

Generation Rend. Young man rending his garments in anguish at extortionate rents.

"I feel that just as as I think I can make ends meet, someone moves the ends!"

'I want to eat healthy food, but it takes green to eat green.'

It's the only crossing guard they can afford.

"Words from the wise, Grandson, live to be 100, but never get sick, old or retire!"

"Move over! - I just got the bill!"

They're slashing our health care and pension to cut the budget at work. Plus, I have to take an unpaid furlough week. Let's go see colleges! Ok! That will take my mind off my depressing finances. University. And!

'So... cutting my funding, eh? Well, I've got a pair of mutant fists that say otherwise!'