The ADN headline on June 10 read, “Alaska weighs big changes to the Permanent Fund, but lawmakers say public response has been light.” Well, we have been responding to lawmakers about the oil money for about 40 years now. They just do not want to hear what we are saying. They have very selective hearing when it comes from anyone that doesn’t agree with them or their spending habits.
Maybe we have to say it louder. “You blew all the funds set aside for running the state government, now keep your mitts off our Permanent Fund.” We know how to spend it on what we truly need.
— Michael Kurth
Anchorage
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