[There's such a thing as being pessimistic and another as being completely depressing. Lucas bites his lower lip a bit as he listens to Pokey's slippery slope of despair and hopeless corruption.]

You know, that depends on a lot of things going the way the town plans it to. Things that they don't have any control over. Things like... the morals of the person who gets the job, and the empathy of the people of the town. I think you're underestimating both, a little.