text: I was disappointed to see the Legislature do so little this year to close the fiscal gap. I am glad to see the governor taking reasonable actions to address the issue, however unpopular those actions may be. The PFD dividend is a privilege, not a right. Personally, I'm thankful to be getting anything. If you look at the big picture of the state's fiscal gap, the only thing that could possibly close it, without taking the economy into a severe recession or depression, was tapping the PFD earnings. Hoping for higher oil prices or some other unnamed solution is not a strategy.