Alaska's Fiscal Crisis will be staunchly maintained by the same Republican coterie that deliberately engineered it. Some realists saw it coming as the catastrophic economic policy it turned out to be -- violating all the commonsense rules of financial risk management, and ethical economic policy. 

How else could revenues sufficient to fund civil society be expected to continue from a single source which is nonrenewable, unsustainable, and responsible for triggering the climate tipping point of return?