State economists and so-called state leaders (Republican majority) only have to look at southeast Alaska during the time period when the Inside Passage lost its thriving timber economy, which collapsed in 1997.  Thousands of people, locals and Outsiders, lost their timber jobs.  Outsiders moved back to their home states, but the born and raised workers stayed put and managed to lick their financial wounds and found less paying jobs to pay their bills.  Tourism which attracts one million visitors to the Inside Passage five months out the the year now contributes to the, still fragile, economy.  A day will come when the floating hotels discontinue their voyages to Alaska; then what?  Diversity Alaska's economy?  With what industries that we haven't already exhausted?