People keep saying - like Bill Walker's tycoon-orchestrated gloom & doom mantra - that the dividends will "run out for good in three or four years." What prognosticator of the future presumes to know this (worst case) scenario well-enough to repeat it like a done deal? Oil prices have already increased over 80% from their low and are 2 years ahead of Walker's DOR's purposely low-balled projections. What a great time for belt-tightening, breaking away from the idea that we should be subsidizing and supporting an unsustainable and run-up economy that no longer exists. It is not the job, nor especially the obligation of we bush/near bush Alaskans to prop up the urban faux-economy that has so exponentially proliferated under Republican rule in the first 16 years of the 21st century.
In the real world of the 'rugged individualist', a Randian hero takes his/her licks, lower bond ratings and all, and vows to never fall into that trap again. A day of reckoning that cries "Leave the PFD ALONE!