Yes, good government costs a lot of money but, as we have seen, so does bad government. The Governor creates the budget; however, without legislative appropriation not a dime can be spent on that budget.   I fear that neither the Alaska legislative process itself nor those cultural apologists who flew to Anchorage to explain "what they are doing"  can be understood by anyone, and despite the "crocodile tears" that is exactly how those apologists and their peers like it