Sometimes you just have to go with your gut as to what`s right or wrong to do to even get the hard conversation started. A conversation I guarantee we wouldn`t be having in any serious manner under Parnell had he won instead of Bill Walker. Parnell would be stumping for the producers and would be asking how much MORE tax breaks and royalty reductions we should give his patrons to get "more oil into TAPS"  and "more revenue for the state" as we spend our savings even faster.  The Governor has ticked a lot of folks off, but he`s doing what I elected him to do, and address the fiscal gap from endemic oil price corrections that drive us to the conclusion it`s time for the new paradigm away from a strict dependency on oil revenue.   Hammond would be pounding his fist on the dais telling us to start pulling away from the fiscal clutches of a single industry, and let our fund`s savings and investments get to work for the state and government and people as he envisioned.  Look what Kansas did.