Gosh I agree it's a laughable article.  Sure, the Governor did noting seriously to propose substantial cuts to government operations but you know...read the constitution.   The power of appropriations is in the legislature.  They control the purse strings.   And what has the legislature done in the last decade?   Let's see.  They've doubled their salaries.  They've changed Alaska (the only oil entity on earth this way) from a Gross margin tax on oil production to a net profits tax (leading to our current demise), failed to fund the pension liabilities, increased our bond indebtedness to the largest per capita in America, not cut anything of substance from general government operations (short fund some then add back in via supplementals), and then have the fortitude to have an article written that blames someone else.   The solution is to vote everyone out and start again.  Labor has to be a part of the solution too.