SCRANTON RUNS OUT OF MONEY, Cuts All City Salaries To Minimum Wage

[krazen1211]

http://www.businessinsider.com/scranton-mayor-slashes-all-public-worker-wages-2012-7

The city of Scranton, Pa., sent out paychecks to its employees Friday, like it does every two weeks. But this time the checks were much smaller than usual. Mayor Chris Doherty has reduced everyone's pay — including his own — to the state's minimum wage: $7.25 an hour.
Doherty says his city has run out of money.




That's an amazing round of union busting. Reckless spending has driven these cities into ruin.

[krazen1211]

I'm sure reducing the entire municipal workforce to minimum wage will do wonders local businesses and tge area's economy, hence long term tax revenues.

At least now we know what people like krazen envision as their utopia. And the faact they'll blame the fiscal woes for places like scranton not on a wall-street inspired recession, but rather mean old public serrvice unions.

So krazen, are you ready ffor your stolen car or break-in investigation handled by a cop earning minimum wage? Or your housefire by a crew earning minimum wage?

Scranton is a shrinking city with a drying up tax base. The prudent thing to do would be to fire some government workers that are no longer needed and were probably never needed in the first place. They of course failed to do so.