Poor county, rich county

In the fine spirit of Voodoo economics, the county of Monroe is exhibiting some kind of budget schizophrenia. For most of the last half of last year, all we heard about was how poor the county is. We still hear about how terrible its fixed costs are, especially the huge expense that has to be set aside for all us retirees. Next thing ya know, it's a new year and the county starts talking about how it would be great to build a new Central Dispatch center outside of the Fermi ring of death, that 10 mile radius around the nuke plant that presumably would be safe if the old plant exploded. Seems like nobody's batting an eyelash about the fact that the county somehow would have to come up with a few million to pay for this thing that we've managed to do without through some of the worst operating periods of the atomic plant. Now it's an imperative. Looks like the only thing we really have to fear now is a financial meltdown in the county.