Recyling building a waste of money

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Mandatory pickup would have been more effective

By Ben Carlson

The fiscal court approved wasting hundreds of thousands of dollars Monday morning to build a recycling building that it doesn’t need.
No, the magistrates aren’t bent on wasting your tax dollars, but Monday’s vote to spend nearly $320,000 on a building and perhaps thousands more to purchase a 15-year-old trash truck from a community bright enough to get out of the recycling business reeks of two things:
1) Fear
2) The desire to stay in elected office, even if it means not doing the right thing.


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