Les, you don't seem to understand the need to REDUCE STATE SPENDING. Those of us in the PRIVATE SECTOR have to live within our means, but government never seems to be willing to address their profligate spending ways. Instead the GOVERNMENT always resorts to TAX MORE and SPEND MORE. Just last year STATE EMPLOYEES were asked to accept a PAY FREEZE (not a paycut) and they even refused to do that. Now Governor Walker has just announced the hiring of Keith Meyer for $550,000 which is a $200,000 raise over the previous AGDC president. And lets not forget the all the wasteful spending on the LIO building. The facts are that the Alaska Legislature is unable to control their appetite for spending and the results now and into the future are ruinous for Alaskans. The truth is, there needs to be a massive reduction of Alaska Government Spending to get to a sustainable level. In the private sector, we live on SUSTAINABLE BUDGETS, or we go BROKE AND BANKRUPT, and ALASKA needs to do the same.