Thank you soooo much Mr. Erickson!  We do need a combination of cutting, streamlining and recognition that the Permanent Fund is working exactly the way it was supposed to. Thanks to a legislature that doesn't understand its purpose, we have $16 Billion in combined CBR (Constitutional Budget Reserve - $6B) and ER (Earnings Reserve - $9B).  Since our current deficit is either $2.5 or $3 Billion (or anywhere in between) we could spend this money over 8-10 years.  If we cut the budget, here are 2 of 5-6, by combining our 54 school districts into 30 or less and streamlining our resource development permitting process back into one office, we'd start saving and opening opportunity.  So, we can keep cutting (only now we have to abandon the UGF and concentrate on the Administrative Budget), and use the Earnings Reserve (51% vote of Leg.) and/or the CBR (75% vote of Leg).  The ER gets at least partially replenished every year, so let's start there. 2022 is supposed to bring us 3 oil wells!