It's encouraging to see some amount of traction in solving Alaska's immediate fiscal bleed-out.  However, it's quite irrelevant if the heart of the issue remains unresolved. Alaska is dying right now because we are nearly completely dependent on the value of a global market that has been altered through the advent of new technology. The price of oil per barrel will never again rebound like Alaskans previously experienced and depended on. This has nothing to do with the rise and fall of global demand, but is exclusively due to dramatic cut in costs associated with production.  In other words, because of fracking/shale technology every square inch of earth is effectively Saudi Arabia, and the oil is a fraction of the cost to get out of the ground now compared to traditional drilling methods.

Alaska needs to leverage the Permanent Fund NOW, right now, in a way that supports aggressive and immediate investment in NEW industry development in-state.  Otherwise Alaska has no economic future.