Unfortunately, Senator Bishop doesn't realize that the Permanent Fund Earnings Reserve (ER), the Constitutional Budget Reserve (CBR) and the Statutory Budget Reserve (SBR) are working.  We have $16 billion in ER and the CBR.  If we only had these funds available to us for government, we'd have 2 full years of current budget money.  But, we don't need to just use these funds.  There are still oil revenues, which were calculated at $46.81 per barrel to develop the FY18 budget.  Federal Funds are still coming in for Education, Transportation, Health Care and more.  There are fees, fines and taxes that are still being taken out of our pockets.  Finally, until the House Coalition chews it up and spits it out, we'll still have money coming from the Permanent Fund going into Dividends (severely diminished by the House and Senate beggars) and the Earnings Reserve.  If we are prudent, we will have plenty of money until 2021 (4 years) or 2022 (5 years) when the oil will pump again.