Another steaming pile of partisan dung from Left Gara. He begins with "Alaska is facing the prospect of the worst recession in almost 30 years". Um, lessee. 30 years ago, Gara was at Harvard while myself and many other Alaskans were toughing it out as our businesses and the businesses of our employers were failing left and right. Those of us scraping by found out who the real short-timers were when folks abandoned their houses and fled the state in large numbers. Three years before, the newly-enshrined entitlement class of bureaucrats were campaigning to do away with the PFD only months after the first checks came out, first enabled by the delays brought on by Democrat Ron Zobel and his lawsuit, then further enabled by the election of Democrat Bill Sheffield as governor. I remember being told by members of this class that this was "their money" or words to that effect.