There may be some points about Gov Walker's  balanced solution that we don't like, first among many being that we all have some pain to bear in the process and solution. But the fact remains that Walker's is the only plan we have heard at all. Our elected representatives, and their leadership in particular, have offered nothing, nada, as an alternative, and have uselessly wasted time and offered lame excuses as to why they can't move. Odd that a Legislature that even offers the President advice on everything from guns to resources to health care, can't conceive of a simple concept like a bank account that is shrinking and needs a fundamental change of direction. As an Alaskan, I am ashamed that we have been so compacent in managing our house of good fortune, that we have allowed corporate rats to infest our legislative house. There are matters here crying for ballot box solutions from the voters.