Mr. Cole, you once again forget that cutting many things can yield significant savings. You focus, once again, on using the Permanent Fund to build the bridge to Happy Strawberry Unicorn Candy Land, where everything will work perfectly once it is gutted.

Balderdash.

The PFD fiasco is headed for court because the Robber Barons in Lobbyist Land, desperately scrambling for anything to keep gorging themselves, are trying to Raid it. It is dis-gus-ting watching them suck per diem like a plague of mosquitos on a caribou, while going on vacation & refusing to do their damn job.

You make no mention of canceling multiple budget-busting boondoggles, like the Juneau Mine Road. No mention of making the Legislature live within their means, instead of living it up in the Taj Mahawker, or the coming Taj II on Minnesota. 

Instead, you throw the sacrificial (PFD) lamb upon the oil-covered altar, shouting 'it's the only way."

A starving man doesn't turn down bread because it has no butter on it.