It doesn't matter how much you bloviate Mr. Wohlforth. The bottom line for me and those I relate with is that until the whack-a-doodles down in Lobbyist Land get the hand of Big Oil out of their back pockets, out of OUR pockets, and take actual, concrete steps to reducing government, shelving pie-in-the-sky budget busters like KABATA, the Taj Mahawker, the Taj II, and the MacKinnon Mine Road, and Truly cooperate on a sustainable budget, they shouldn't have access to the Permanent Fund in ANY way. When I see them reducing their salaries,office budgets, and personal aide fundage that pays some of them 6 figures for 3 months of work, THEN I will believe they are working toward the common good.

Until then, whether I own, deserve, or 'borrow' a PFD, it does not matter. The so-called Representatives in their glass-walled Palace downtown need to pony up their OWN wallets before insisting I open mine. Lead by example is the right road, but those cowards would rather burn my money first.