It should also be mentioned in this article that the permanent fund made 1% last year, the average is 6.4%.
That is already $2.5 Billion lost under the new management appointed by Walker.
The fund somehow lost money on stocks when the market did well.
We cannot take 5% every year when the fund is making 1% without renaiming it the 'Quickly Dwindling Fund'

Perhaps you can do your next column on the late great Governor Jay Hammond and why he set up the Permanent Fund Dividend.  The idea was to give Alaskans a stake in our revenue so that we would pay more attention to government run amock.

When they come for our PFD, he thought Alaskans would wake up and realize the government is out of control. He thought Alaskans would demand change.

The last thing Hammond would have wanted when we have a legislature of corrupt bastards giving our oil revenue away and coming for our PFD...would be to roll over and give it to them as suggested by this column.