"We will find a bottom this year or early next and we can adjust to our new normal," Calvin [a state public employee] said.  Very doubtful.  The bottom will be reached when the State of Alaska bureaucracy downsizes from a $100 oil business model to one of $45.  This process hasn't started yet.  Until then, the State will continue to make a giant sucking sound as it guzzles our money and ensures our recession will be long, painful and devastating.