Ms Troll drags up the old "soup spoon" argument from Milton Friedman: 

Dr Friedman recalled traveling to an Asian country in the 1960s and visiting a work site where a new canal was being built. He was shocked to see that, instead of excavators and earth movers, the workers had shovels and picks. He asked why there were so few machines. The government bureaucrat explained: “You don’t understand. This is a jobs program.” To which Milton replied: “Oh, I thought you were trying to build a canal. If it’s jobs you want, then you should give these workers soup spoons, not shovels.”

Even with the cuts proposed by Sen Kelly and others, Alaska will still have the largest state government in the US per population. We can no longer afford that luxury. The role of the government is to allow the private sector operate smoothly; not to create unproductive tasks that drain resources from the economy.