Living Cost Analyst Mugs

'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!'

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

Department of efficiency and cost analysis.

'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.

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

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

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

'I cut myself slashing the budget!'

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

Delivering red ink to the Berueu of Management and Budget.

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

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

Committee on Deficit Spending and Positive Spinning.

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.

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

"Worst budget cuts ever!"

US aid to Ukraine

EU

The Costs Of Doing War.

Run in the Family

The ways and means committee reaches the tipping point.