Mayor abruptly slashes wages to minimum for Scranton City Workers

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75. I have been on DU for 2 or 3 years

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and I'm not a big poster on DU. Basically I limit myself to Fire fighter and EMS topics and the economy.

OK, I presently live in Carbon County and have roots in Scranton and Wilkes-Barre and NE PA Fire service and EMS. So while I'm not an expert on city workers rights, I know Scranton, it's politics, it's current economic situation and the present economic situation under discussion. If I piss off someone including the OP poster so be it because I love NE PA, my home and the disinformation here is really sad.

First of all, here is a fact that NO ONE want's to hear and I don't want to say but it is the truth. EMS in Scranton is run by private providers so even if you call 911 and fire is on strike, you will get a ride to the ER. They, the medics in Scranton got their full pay last week even if the FFS didn't.

Next, last week when the firefighters were getting paid $7.50/hr, Vice President Biden was in town hob knobbing with the Mayor. Oh yes, and did you hear one word about this? Scranton is the birth place of the VP, did you know that? Did you know that US Sen. Bob Casey is also a son of Scranton?

Let that sink in for a minute.

Scranton is as Demacratic a city as they come. The homeowners in Scranton pay a lot more in taxes than everyone outside of the city. Scranton is basically a wreck. 30 years ago there were 100s of good union factories in Scranton. All gone today. If there are any rich people living high on the hog in Scranton please give me their names.

If there was any possibilty that Scranton could benifit from throwing rocks at the repukes, then who on this side of sanity thinks that the dems running Scranton would not be doing so?

If the Mayor is thrown in jail it will solve nothing because there is no money to pay the workers. Many on DU is saying that the PA legislators will not allow Scranton to declare ch 9. Someone please tell me how the pukes in Harrisburg can stop the city of Scranton from filing the paperwork in a court to declare chapter 9? How does the state exercise that kind of control over the federal courts?

The reason why the dems running Scranton are not throwing rocks at the pukes is very simple. The City does not have any kind of fiscal plan. There is no BANK on this earth that will lend Scranton the millions it needs without a practical plan, something that those running this cily have avoided doing for years. The kid's running the city know that they are kids and do not want the party to end and thus here we are. Sorry if that offends, gets me thrown out of here, whatever, but that is the truth.

Blaming republicans may feel good, may be factually correct but in the case of Scranton PA is not helpful at all. The Mayor and City Council of Scranton does not, I repeat DO NOT want the eyes of the nation and the bookkeepers of the Banks looking at them.... end of story...