Living Cost Analyst Gifts

'How much does this book about inflation cost?'...

'Guess who's hinting for a raise?'

"We seem to be spending more on defence than on things to defend"

"Who's got the hammer?"

Where are they now?: Office of Management & Budget - Grumpy.

"My monthly screen time went up from 62 hours to ‘Holy #@!*’."

'You earned this corner office by cutting corners...'

"Our new information management system has just worked out where we wasted most money last year. . . It was on the new information management system."

Businessman sees door sign 'Department of Mismanagement and Overbudget'.

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

"You need to justify your own existence first."

'We're asking what america can do without to reduce the deficit...no, ma'ma! the Gop and Dems are not options!'

Department of efficiency and cost analysis.

"Well the good news is that we did save a little money by not investing in cyber crime protection...."

'The deficit doesn't look nearly so bad now that we've switched to Arabic numerals.'

'As the government sees it, the U.S. budget would be fine if more deficit earners like you, Mr. Wald, go on the ball!'

"We may have to rob from the rich AND the poor."

An Everyday Explanation of the Federal Budget.

'We spend a lot, borrow a lot, tax a lot. It keeps things from getting boring.'

"Unfortunately the first thing they cut was the stationery budget..."

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

'I cut myself slashing the budget!'

Delivering red ink to the Berueu of Management and Budget.

Looking for the cause of high health care costs. . .

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.

City Centre Development - "...We've spent all the money on the model."

'My firm has scrutinised your budget and determined you could save a fortune by sacking us...that'll be £300,000 please!'

Committee on Deficit Spending and Positive Spinning.

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

US aid to Ukraine

Run in the Family

'We've gone over your budget very carefully, Mr Thorne. Unfortunately the network does not sell 7-second spots.'

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

EU

The ways and means committee reaches the tipping point.