Comment: Lets not get bogged down in the minutia here. All of these cuts that are listed in this article are luxury items. When the country is in dept of the tune of ~19 trillion in operating cost  and ~ 200 Trillion in unfunded liabilities and the state of Alaska is ~4.5 billion in the hole, it is absolutely criminal and crazy to sit here and talk about luxury items that I pay for with my tax dollars, like they are essential rights that the government should pay for. You can have all the funding you want when you are in the black.  But when you are in the red, which we are and will be for generations to come superfluous spending is insane.  I applaud the budget cuts, not because I support the President, but because of plain and simple economics.  You cannot sustain anything when you don't have the money.  And we don't have the money.  Also our Congressional delegates are saying what you want to hear.  If they can't see the writing on the wall then they are fools that will enable the downfall.