Funding the current Legislative agenda is NOT funding the needs of the state, it is propping up a declining industry. When you ask the residents to put " skin in the game ", what do you tell the person that can no longer drink the water from his well due to sulfolane contamination, and has watched his,or her, home value plummet. When you ask the citizen to give up part of the PFD ,after giving the declining oil industry a 5 billion dollar gift, to continue operating in the same manner, you have lost the trust and confidence of the citizens. 
  
    The oil companies are being propped up by the savings that the Republican ,gerrymandered, legislature has every intention of pouring into that very declining industry until the PFD is completely gone.

     The ONLY reason we are in such bad shape are the people that are STILL making the same bad decisions hoping for a profitable outcome for themselves.