I agree, there has not been enough substantial cuts made to state government because they are putting things off by trying to use the PFD.  If they can't make meaningful cuts anywhere then the PFD confiscation will do next to nothing to balance the budget.  As far as doing all this to save the PFD for future Alaskans...until the cost of oil goes up there will be hardly any PFD after these next two years the checks will go down and thats with or without them taking these next two years checks.  The only reason they want the next two checks is because they are forecast to be very large.  It seems to me they just want to deny us the PFD checks and only give us $1000 because they don't want to really dig in and make the cuts they are supposed to, don't lie and say your saving the PFD when we all know without the oil revenue its gone anyway.  Why should the Alaskan taxpayer foot the bill for irresponsible state government spending, there should have been a contingency plan but there wasn't.