A quick review of private, legislative, and administrative actions [and attempted actions] put up beside Fed spending and restraints in AK over the last decades, clearly shows that the State would be flat on it's face, dead broke, with large areas of wasteland: contaminated, eroding failures of fantasy 'industry' by modern day version of gold-diggers and a number of greedy self-serving elected officials, w/o Federal rules and interventions.  There are enough 'monuments' to this type of self-appointed 'privileged' individuals and groups [our current fiscal difficulties after years of wealth and extravagance being just 1 such] to remind most Alaskans that a little Fed oversight is a good thing.