Fiscal Year Fanatics Prints

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

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

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

IRS: The country is broke, but your taxes cannot be construed as 'Charity to the Poor'.

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

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

Currency Stimulus.

'Okay... now everyone smile and say: 'that;s not deductible'.'

What is possible and what is probable.

Fiscal cliff

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

Tax Cuts Water the Economy.

"If we were a business - rather than a government - we'd be bankrupt!"

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

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

Fiscal Cliff Dwellers.

Debt Ceiling and False Ceiling.

Cost of Terror.

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

Pork barrel projects vs Keynesian economics.

Tax Cuts Watering the Economy

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

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

The world enters a global financial recession.

"No more stress!"

"If only there was a thesaurus for numbers."

"Someday this will all be yours!"

Annual sleep disorder for tax accountants.

'I warned them! I told them the sky is falling! The sky is falling! But, this time nobody listened.'

"The tip jar is not for me. It's for the U.S. Budget Deficit."

Bureau of Government Pork: 'Good Lord! Who's going to pay for all this!'

Uncle Sam and Quantitative Easing.

'See anything interesting?'

Jim Flaherty's bonbons: The new fiscal reality will be a hard one to swallow.

'See the nice benefits?'