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 You’re always a day away. <br>
 :— “Tomorrow”, from ''Annie'' (1977)}}
-“When budget allows” is a mystical, mythical time in the future that, like tomorrow, is always in the future, and as each day turns, get no nearer: the point where there will be budget, then, to do an urgent task that there is not budget to do ''now''. For is there is insufficient interest to find money to do it ''now'', by the time next month rolls around people will say, but you’ve managed until now, haven’t you?
+“When budget allows” is a mystical, [[hypothetical]] time in the future that, like Little orphan Annie’s Tomorrow, is always there, dangling tantalisingly in the future, as each day turns, getting no nearer. It is the time when there will be budget, later, to do an urgent task for which there is no budget ''now''.
+Logicians will immediately sense a [[paradox]]. This Middle managers talk with reverence about this time, for it is a time one can talk about with confidence and free of regret, while maintaining eye contact with a petitioning SME, assuring her that all will be well.
+For if there is not enough interest to shell out for it ''now'', how will it look by the time next month, next quarter, or next fiscal budgeting cycle rolls around?
 It is rather like putting time quarter of an hour in the diary in four weeks time, to discuss something you want to know now.