For years the public has been asking for a
smaller more efficient government. This request has mostly fallen on
deaf ears, and excess spending has gone on with total disregard for
Alaska’s future. The legislature is faced with a spending crisis of
its own making again this year and wants to use Permanent Fund
earnings to get bailed out.
Instead, they need to evaluate the real cause
of this fiscal crisis and consider appropriate LONG-TERM
solutions to solve it. They must refuse to be swayed by special
interest lobbyists or bureaucrats, that insist spending public money
for their programs must continue forever. Collectively they need to
recognize the fact that our current unsustainable level of state
spending must end BEFORE the state is bankrupt.
Money in the Permanent Fund must be kept for
when it will REALLY be needed. When the oil revenues are
gone, and that WILL happen, there needs to be a savings
account to help pay for essential government services. If we let
them blow the Permanent Fund now, there will be NOTHING left,
and few options available for future generations. Is this the
legacy we want to leave our grand children? I don’t think so!
Any legislator failing to recognize this
over-spending problem and deal with it in a realistic manner is not
worthy to represent me in the future.
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