The Permanent Fund and the Dividend are not broken.  They don't need to be fixed.  As long as there are competent managers, our tiny population still is in possession of a world class economy.

After three sessions Walker still didn't get what he wanted from the Legislature, so he made a unilateral grab for the PFD, which cannot be spent.  He just wanted us to "feel his pain" over the pipeline dream gone south.

And all the other problems still haunt us.  Walker wants $3 to $4 Billion EVERY YEAR from the Fund to keep the leaky ship afloat.  Then he wants another $3.5 Billion from the Fund to make some fishy, gassy deal with Asian financiers, on advice from the TBTF criminal banks that crashed the global economy.  I guess that's why he says the Dividend will only last three more years.

The options that make the most sense have been taken off the table. Nothing innovative has been suggested yet.  And I'm reminded of Timon's apt words:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XWR6jQs7Rs