From the ZH comments,

Problem with the budget? Hide it. Military Costs? There are no military costs. This is fast becoming the Soviet Union. Old Russian joke:

Brezhnev is on a train. The train is a metaphor for the Soviet Economy. The train is not moving. People are complaining. Brezhnev closes all the window curtains on the train car and proclaims, "There. We're moving again."

From the ZH comments,

Problem with the budget? Hide it. Military Costs? There are no military costs.

This is fast becoming the Soviet Union. Old Russian joke:

Brezhnev is on a train. The train is a metaphor for the Soviet Economy. The train is not moving. People are complaining. Brezhnev closes all the window curtains on the train car and proclaims, "There. We're moving again."