The problem with the Alaska economy is most people never looked beyond get rich quick schemes supported by monetizing resources for extraction

No one ever wanted to put anything into the state, it was all about what can be taken out of the state.

People have been looking at Alaska as if Alaska was there to be their gift horse.

And now that the corporate interests are controlling that gift horse, it's a failed model.

There's plenty of corporate welfare draining the treasury and the resources are enriching some of the most profitable corporations on the planet, most of them foreign owned and that's where the value has gone.

We don't support innovation, we don't support renewables, we don't support intellectual property development, we don't support those things that the most innovative and fastest growing economies do.

No, we are stuck in a failed model of non-renewable extractive industries and we don't even capture the fair value of the resources we allow to be taken from us