"We want to see budget cuts," said Curtis Thayer, the head of the chamber. If the price of oil rises enough, he added: "We're out of a problem."

Yea, if, if, if...and if I could get Scarlett Johannson to hang out with me for a weekend she'd know how cool I was and we'd be an item...

Good grief, this is example number 2,118 of why conservatives cannot govern. Yea, lets just wait around and do nothing until oil prices rise...great plan you got there, chamber. 

And Alaska can do without greedy con artists like small business owner Athena Fulton. If her aversion to paying a small tax to maintain basic services is so great, hopefully she'll fold up shop and move someplace with lower taxes...which leaves her the option of only three other states. Of course none of them have a PFD program so maybe Athena can start a campaign that says if government doesn't gives her free money every year it means they think small-business jobs don't matter and resource development is bad.