Ok to be fair it is companies like GCI that create good private sector jobs for Alaskans. Hence they do have skin in the game for matters our state is dealing with. We do need to realize though that our state budget needs to begin moving to more of a pre-oil days structure but also that the permanent fund was established to help fund our government at a time when resources alone could not.  Albeit the painful "restructuring" needs to come before permanent funds are then used.