If Alaska has a 5 billion dollar surplus & pays each resident $1600/yr how hard is it to be Governor?

Question

Alaska receives enough money each year (more as oil prices rise) to pay each of it's citizens $1600 at tax time with another $1200 in rebates from the State's oil trust from oil drilling. The budget surplus in Alaska is $5 billion for 600,000 residents. I wonder how hard it is to make the tough executive decisions when in such a predicament. I live in California where the 43 billion the state lost to Enron would sure come in handy now.

Answer 1

how hard is it to be senator for 3 years but be running for president  for 2 of them?

Answer 2

Too bad CA is so against developing their resources and is not business friendly.

fs

Answer 3

I don't want that person to be president by default if 900 year old McCain dies.

Answer 4

Palin received 200 million in earmarks from Stevenson for her bridge that lead to nowhere.  

Answer 5

CA makes really DA liberal financial decisions. Whats your point? Next Question.

Answer 6

As an Alaskan, I'm actually getting $3347 on the 12th. how cool is palin?

Answer 7

Before the Governor can sign a Bill into Law that was passed by the Legislature, the Governor must first always have been previously Elected!

Think about it!

Answer 8

Except California residents aren't owners of the oil, unlike Alaska residents..

Do you have any idea how expensive it is to live in AK?  No, of course not, or you wouldn't be talking.

I'm from there, and my family and friends told me that they were so grateful for the energy rebate because the price hikes were so drastic and sudden, they needed this relief.

Answer 9

Republicans refuse to say Palin has no business being a VP.

She has NO experience and considers calling out the Alaska National Guard for a wildfire, military experience.

She's a joke!

Answer 10

You actually admit to that?

Answer 11

California = democrat state = crippling debt

Alaska = republican state = prosperity

Do the math?

Answer 12

Not hard just smart.

Answer 13

  It sounds like the royalties should be universal. How come Californians and Texans are not getting a cut?

  How about the Mexicans?

  What about the Russians?

  Are the Venezuelans  getting a cut? The Iranians? The Arab Citizens?

Iraqi's? Any of the OPEC nations people?

  I think we are all getting our cuts, but its a vascular cut in the neck. Do you think with all of that revenue, they would ever want to see technology advance in the fields of science for the production of energy, as in hydrogen?

  I think we are going to stay in the nineteenth century and never space travel, because we are not smart enough to move on to fuels that would allow us to travel.

  Can you imagine a world with unlimited energy. We could grow anything anywhere.

  Come on people, we are smarter than staying on a dirty resource. If its not global warming, what about the smog? Can you imagine China having a million cars. Cough! Cough!