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To: Bread Upon The Water who wrote (57942)	7/7/2009 5:12:29 PM
From: koan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 149317

>>Give every other state Alaska's abundant oil and meager population and they probably could do the same.<< They could have always done the same with what they had. It is that they would not do the same! Vintner where is your logic. What does the size of the population have to do with it?? You either do it or you do not. And it was 25% of all money from state owned natural resources. I think today it is 50%. All natrual resoures, not just oil. If the conservatives had controlled the legislature there never would have been a permanent fund. I was in that fight and the conservative Republicans and oil companies fought it tooth and nail. I have told you that before. Any state could have done it. They all have natural resources. They just either didn't think of it, or the big business and conservatives would not allow it. West Virginia could have done it with coal, but the coal companies would never have stood for it. Remember we had to fight both the conservatives and the oil companies to get it in place. Look how much oil Texas, Oaklahoma, and Louisiana has. Other states have other natural resources like coal, NG, timber, etc. Why didn't any of them start permanent funds for the children of the future? Because conservatives do not like taking the "peoples money" and putting it in a reserve account for future generations. We liberals had no problem with doing it at all. And we thought of it! And we did it. Ask yourself, isn't it interesting it was a very liberal legislature (one that legalized pot). How many states have ever been controlled by liberals in the past?