Budget Warriors Prints

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

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

'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!'

No frills fireworks.

'I hope my application for a block grant is approved. Right now, my kindergarten class is using frozen waffles for stacking and building.'

"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.'

'The government's right. Not counting, food, clothing, energy, shelter, health care, or transportation, inflation is hardly going up.'

"I want you to know that emotion overrode reason."

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

Depressed Businessman at Office Christmas Party.

'Our short-term solution is money. Our long-term solution is more money.'

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

Overdraft limit.

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

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

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

'Wait a minute....!

"I think it's time we cashed in our spare change. We could probably pay off our house."

Free Range Eggs - ""I've decided to sell up. I'm having trouble making hens meet."

'My micro is so good it's beginning to grow into the macro.'

'Well, well. You made more money last year than you did the year before -- You people never learn, do you?'

'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,-!!'

"I tried to hire a hamburger fry cook from a fast food joint for our cafeteria but he wouldn't take the cut in pay."

'I want you stop referring to our grant as 'The Big Dipper.''

"I'm not sure if that bill is correct or not, sir. We just throw a bunch of charges on there to see which ones stick."

'If the best things in life are free, we have too many of the worst things.'

Percentage Lifetime Income.

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

'He joined the party in support of the police cuts.'

Test: Guess who will suffer the most to reduce the deficit?

"Mr. Chairman, distinguished guests, Gramm, Rudman, Hollings..."

Security/Savings

Budget cuts were beginning to bite at the local council

"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."