You are correct.  The "shock and awe" approach to create fear and outrage is the modus operandi of the State of Alaska these days.  Keep the snow plows in the garage so people suffer on the roads when it snows.  Cut the PFD in half.  Cut trooper posts.  Let criminals out of the prisons to run free and terrorize our communities.  It's all a fear-tactics ploy to make the public think the State is significantly cutting (they definitely are not) and set the stage for implementing an income tax, sales tax and a raid on the Permanent Fund.