text: Part 2:  Alaska is ranked very low 45 on the CNN list and 47 on the Forbes list of best states to do business.  Alaska should never rely on one sector, i.e. oil an gas, as a means of obtaining all income.  We need to have a healthy look at why Alaska ranks so low and change that.  We certainly have the space to provide a place for other industry but we have to determine how to get them here to provide a more balanced job market and income to the state.
  
  Discussing the size of government and the cost in 1975 $$ and expecting today to be the same is ridiculous.  First, the size of Alaska's population has doubled since 1975 and then there are those pesky things like consumer price index, producer price index, service providing PPI and more that show costs go up over time.
  
  Before just declaring cuts need to be made, we should consider management audits and operational audits of the state as a whole to look for effectiveness and efficiency.