I don't think that Walker has put in an "honest effort"

When he ran for governor, he spoke out against SB21 and promised he would never touch the PFD to support government spending.

He knows the real problem "release of a new revenue forecast that shows the state paying the industry more cash in credits from its unrestricted general fund than the fund will get back in oil revenue" See "Alaska's general fund is paying the oil industry more than it's getting back"

Since then he has been going around the state trying to convince everyone that oil revenue will never pay the bills and we need to give the government 5.25% of the earnings of the permanent fund.

Meanwhile the new director in charge of the Permanent Fund actually lost 5% on the stock market this year when it was performing just fine.  The Fund only grew 1.35% down from average return of 6.41