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Federal Budget Cartoon

Funny--government budgeting/spending is no joke, but this federal budget cartoon is.

     
 

FEDERAL BUDGET MATH:

 
 
MATHEMATICAL OPERATOR CHANGE TO FEDERAL BUDGET CHANGE TO FEDERAL DEFICIT COMMENT
Plus Item added
to budget
Higher deficit "But we kept our commitment not to raise taxes."
Minus Item deleted
from budget
Lower deficit Exists only in theory
"Off-Budget" Post-It note
on top of actual
budget document
No apparent change in deficit Makes everyone happy... except those who have a clue
 
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U.S. GOVERNMENT REPRESENTATIVES AND THEIR SPENDING SKILLS:

Funny cartoon of two senators; captions say (1) Preston Ishuze, first-year senator: Can spend taxpayer money at normal rate (2) Lovie K. Street, career politician: Can spend taxpayer money twice as fast by using the two halves of her brain independently

As long as our elected bozos are going to tax, borrow, spend and spend and spend... maybe we should insist that they solve some problems along the way—like energy shortfalls, global climate change, pollution, and the trade deficit. See our floor speech on the subject: Global Warming and Tax Shifting ...

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MORE FUNNY QUOTES RELATED TO Federal Budget Cartoon
 
 

"The budget is like a mythical bean bag. Congress votes mythical beans into it, then reaches in and tries to pull real ones out."

        — Will Rodgers

 
   
 
 

"The defense budget is more than a piggy bank for people who want to get busy beating swords into pork barrels."

        — George H. W. Bush (41st US president)

 
   
 
 

"It's clearly a budget. It's got a lot of numbers in it."

        — George W. Bush (43rd US president)

 
   
 
 

"After the government takes enough to balance the budget, the taxpayer has the job of budgeting the balance."

        — Unknown

 
   
 
 

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FUNNY QUOTE FOR
Federal Budget Cartoon

"A billion here, a billion there—sooner or later it adds up to real money."

– Senator Everett Dirksen

 

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