State employees lost half of their PFD, too. We have to pay more when we buy a pint at a pub, more when we put fuel in our cars, etc. Why do people act like state employees aren't facing the same repercussions as other Alaskans? I'm a professor at the U of A and my pay doesn't even come close to making the top 100 list of highest paid Alaskans. Also, to blame Gov. Walker for the reduction of our credit rating is ludicrous! Alaska's economic problem has been developing for decades - ever since our Republican legislature put all of our economic eggs in one basket by having oil as our only source of revenue. We have needed to diversify our economy forever yet we continue to elect people without the intellectual or creative ability to do so. Worse, they have acted like little princes and princesses and spent like the good times would never end. This is not the fault of state employees. State employees are just the legislator's and their underling's favorite whipping boys.