When you elect people who war on the Oil Companies (Walker, Mallott, Backbone, unions, democrats and greens), the producers will leave the state and take their investment dollars and jobs with them.  When you war against mining (Pebble - 16,000 jobs, Chuitna - 1,550 jobs, Wishbone Hills, etc.) you will ensure no new jobs are created.  You will ensure that the state economy does not diversify.  When you favor the interests of 1,200 commfish permit holders in Cook Inlet over the interests of 200,000 sport fish, subsistence and personal use users, you will crush the tourist and sport fish business in Cook Inlet.

Heinlein noted this sort of thing half a century ago, describing it as "bad luck."  We make our own bad luck all with the smirking cheerleading of Alice's fish wrapper.  Cheers -