Did Mussolini make the budgets run on time?

I'm watching Bush address the nation on the state of Iraq. He just cited the passage of a budget as one of the major signs of improvement in Iraq. To be sure, I understand that nearly all politicians believe that government expenditures are the acme of human achievement. Nonetheless, this seems like a rather low bar.

This article available online at:

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2007/09/did-mussolini-make-the-budgets-run-on-time/1922/