Wake up Les.  Every year for the past 35 years people like you have put pressure on the state to spend as much of our oil revenues as possible.  And now you are crying because fellow lawmakers are putting pressure on folks like you to cut every year (to compensate for 35 years of overspending)?  What goes up must eventually come down.  Such is the case with out-of-control spending, something you and the state of Alaska are good at.