Express your cynicism towards political promises to invest in the state's future, drawing an analogy to a group of fools attempting to get granite rocks to burn using only gasoline as fuel.
Senator, I'm jaded.  Too often "We must invest in Alaska's future" is analogous to one fool convincing other fools into believing they can get a pile of granite rocks to burn.  They gather the rocks,  pour gasoline (i.e. state money) onto the rocks, throw a match and BOOM - there comes a huge ball of fire, with plenty of heat and smoke. They immediately celebrate their collective genius and return to the house.  The next day they go outside and discover nothing but a pile of warm rocks. So what do the do?  They try again to get the granite rocks to burn and again they fail. 
 So then they decide that they chose the wrong type of rocks. So they gather shale rocks  which are a different color (yet  just as inert).  Proclaiming they have found the solution they pour even more gasoline (state money) onto this "new" pile of rocks and the cycle repeats itself with exactly the same results.
 Saddly,  until the gasoline (state money) runs out they never quit trying to get those rocks to burn.