Our economy is jobs, rent, house payments, clothes bought, restaurant meals, and so on. Every job lost affects all the others in the chain and yet more jobs lost.  Those in turn have families that will also suffer.  Like it of not, state spending is part of the economy that many in the chain depend on. The failure to use permenant fund earnings to slow the economic fall will at some level adversely impact nearly every working family. Hundreds of empty houses/condos and numerous vacant strip malls is not a pretty site.  We been there - done that. If everybody gives some we won't repeat that debacle.