In a recent letter to the editor, the letter writer said Alaskans must choose between “the Permanent Fund and keeping the Railbelt warm.”
With all due respect, Alaska is not just the highway between Homer and Fairbanks, and it’s insulting to rural Alaskans to have it put that way. Why not keep all Alaskans warm?
Especially at over eight bucks a gallon for fuel oil in our village.
In fact, aren’t Native villages the original Alaska? Don’t we count? No, we never do to Anchorage and the Railbelt. And yet so much of Anchorage is dependent upon village Alaska for their job security.
Pilots, oil company workers, health care, government, natural resource extraction, guided hunting and fishing and more depend on rural Alaska. Come on, Anchorage and the “Railbelt,” Alaska is not just you. I’m sure Juneau and the Panhandle agree.
— David Bigger
Kalskag
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