Cost Commentator Gifts

'Well, maybe upteen zillion was too general a cost estimate.'

"DeepSeek" "Stargate"

"The regular Fox news commentator was canned for being too soft on Iran. I'm Dick Cheney."

'Your salary will help you learn the lesson that life is not fair.'

'The recession is over, again.'

"Still, he might be remembered as the 'no cloning' President."

'I'm terribly worried, Doctor - he doesn't talk back to Bill O'Reilly any more.'

'We'll see significant savings in health care costs with our new in-house operations.'

'Next on 'evening shouting match'...is it a bull or bear market?'

'In sickness and in health, under affordable health care or unaffordable. . .'

Pundits

'Stocks gyrated today on news life is full of suprises.'

Payroll Dept. My economic anxiety has less to do with the weak dollar than the week's dollars! (Published originally on March 14, 2008.)

News and Magazines. Record Debt. Dollar Down. How can the dollar be weak when we've been giving it such a good workout?

"Our generous pensions are unsustainable so I'm firing you."

Shop signs: then vs. now

'And now, an NBS News Special Investigative Report: Why doesn't President Obama get the respect and support he deserves?'

"There. Straight from the organic veggie patch. The world's most expensive carrot."

I dread to think what he would have got had they made a profit.

'Of course being on short term contract, I don't enjoy the same benefits as the rest of you.'

'One might say the market's gone from the sub-prime to the iniquitous!'

'I'm sorry, but without a significant deposit, we can't give you a mortgage.'

"We’ve been told to cut the drugs budget so in future Louella here will be chanting away your pain."

"...No, he can't really fly...no, the bad guys really don't have a ray gun...no, this cereal really isn't the best food in the whole world...no, it won't make you as strong as a giant..."

"He's a genius at product placement."

'That's the end of the news - (B****RD MEN!!)'

Bank. Take one $. I guess it is nice of the, but it doesn't do much for my confidence in the dollar.

"Tonight's big story... we're leaving you... it's not you, it's us..."

"And, in our continuing effort to minimize surgical costs, I'll be hitting you over the head and tearing you open with my bare hands."

'I think we've done enough to help the economy now.'

'After nine commercials I've forgotten what film we were watching.'

"Coming up on political gymnastics, the next candidate will try a triple reverse flip flop..."

"Damn shareholders are objecting to 'grotesquely inflated' executive pay... They want us to settle for 'outrageously inflated'!"

Finally Debt Free

Man in carriage waiting for shopping wife