Fiscal Fantasist Gifts

"Do me a favor, Harlow. When you greet me, stop saying 'Hello, big spender!'"

"To summarize the year: we were taken over, we took over, we were taken over and we took over."

Three businessmen using a pulley system to change a graph

'I used to work for the Treasury Department, but there's no future in economic forecasts.'

"Seriously, do you expect us to believe you put on 143 feet a day in business travel?"

Exchange Rate Going Down the Plughole

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.

It's 10 P.M. does anyone know what 'sequestration' means?

Congressional Budget Committee: Benefactor...Victim

"I'm at that awkward stage between credit card payments and alimony payments."

Currency Stimulus.

"Tell me the fairytale about the economy."

Fiscal cliff

What is possible and what is probable.

"Financial Adviser advises client 'I advise you that you're broke'."

'Should the U.S. motto be, 'In for a buck, in for a trillion'?'

EU Budget: '5% more and you're home free!'

'Sorry, you must have the wrong person, I don't pay income tax.'

Updated Proverbs. We come into the world with nothing. And leave deeply in debt!

Tax Cuts Water the Economy.

"It's the government, they've spent all our taxes and want to know if we can send them some more."

'It's your debt to society.'

"And after the prime rate declined by half a point, the Dow rose by thirty-two, guess what happened to Goose and Fox?"

"Actually we're one of the few businesses that enjoy VAT visits."

Collapse of 'Corner Men'

Euro crisis bailout.

"At last, a country that welcomes poor refugees like me..."

Cost of Terror.

I spent it all under the silly notion that it was all mine.

The Pessimist, the Optimist and the Obamamist.

Fiscal Cliff Dwellers.

We'll be paying for his recovery for generations.

Pork barrel projects vs Keynesian economics.

Debt Ceiling and False Ceiling.

'...I also do some work for the tax department.'