24,000 state employees.  That's way too many.  Vermont, which has a similar population to Alaska has 7,500 employees.  Yes, VT is smaller than Alaska.  But Alaska in no way justifies almost 4 times per capita more state workers than VT.  And 24,000 is just employees.  There must be that many or more contractors that do business with the state.  In reality, the state hasn't begun to cut.  Walker is lying if he claims that state has cut significantly.  Multiple state department agencies could be cut and the services provided by the private sector.  A list of state agencies is here: http://alaska.gov/akdir1.html  Walker hasn't even begun to restructure state to government to a $50 oil business model.