Just as the United States has banks and auto companies too big to fail, North Dakota has a Legacy Fund that is too big to spend, now ranging somewhere around $7,000,000,000. We are awed by such a fund after spending 130 years fighting off wolves.
It is a paralyzing amount and if we bust it open we are afraid of something like the Boston Molasses Flood that poured two million gallons of gunk into th…