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Scranton's Public Workers Now Paid Minimum Wage
NPR ^
| July 7, 2012
| JEFF BRADY
Posted on 07/08/2012 3:05:32 PM PDT by kingattax
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posted on
07/08/2012 3:05:43 PM PDT
by
kingattax
To: kingattax
If It was $3.25 an hour: the tax payers would finally get their monies worth!
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posted on
07/08/2012 3:09:13 PM PDT
by
Jim from C-Town
(The government is rarely benevolent, often malevolent and never benign!)
To: kingattax
Don’t know, but it sounds like a stunt. Once the tax money comes in, they’ll pay them back.
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posted on
07/08/2012 3:11:02 PM PDT
by
BobL
To: kingattax
If It was $3.25 an hour: the tax payers would finally get their monies worth!
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posted on
07/08/2012 3:12:53 PM PDT
by
Jim from C-Town
(The government is rarely benevolent, often malevolent and never benign!)
To: kingattax
IF Pennsylvania was a person, Philadelphia would be the anal orifice and Scranton would be the armpit. This is the hometown of Bob Casey, Jr., BO's very own rubber stamp.
Allentown, located in the same general region of the state, and hometown of our other U.S. Senator, Pat Toomey, has a similar industrial history to Scranton but does not elect many Democrat politicians.
I suppose it is just a coincidence that Allentown is a well-governed and fiscally sound community.
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posted on
07/08/2012 3:13:00 PM PDT
by
Vigilanteman
(Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
To: kingattax
Interesting...moreso because he’s a Democrat. And Scranton is Casey Country. I wonder if Tom Smith (R candidate for Senate) will pay a visit..
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posted on
07/08/2012 3:13:11 PM PDT
by
SueRae
(See it? Hell, I can TASTE November from my house!)
To: kingattax
You can’t get blood out of a turnip. Without a court injunction.
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posted on
07/08/2012 3:15:26 PM PDT
by
Oldeconomybuyer
(The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
To: kingattax
when re they gonna cut their welfare benefits?
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posted on
07/08/2012 3:16:21 PM PDT
by
camle
(keep an open mind and someone will fill it full of something for you)
To: Jim from C-Town
Wait, you mean getting paid a fat salary with generous benefits with the ability to retire at age 48 with full pension and benefits isn’t a Human Right?
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posted on
07/08/2012 3:20:36 PM PDT
by
Tea Party Terrorist
(Fast & Furious: Proof the Government should not have access to guns)
To: kingattax
A quick internet search shows that Christopher Doherty is a democrat who loves trees and hates babies.
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posted on
07/08/2012 3:20:55 PM PDT
by
Repeal The 17th
(We have met the enemy and he is us.)
To: kingattax
Basically, they will never get it until they are strung up and hanged.
The city is out of MONEY. What is a judge going to do?
Conjure it up?
Raising taxes won’t increase revenue for more than a nanosecond.
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posted on
07/08/2012 3:21:51 PM PDT
by
bill1952
(Choice is an illusion created between those with power - and those without)
To: kingattax
"Don't know how I'm going to pay bills at home. I may be able to stave it off for a little while," Judge says. "[The] kids aren't going to be able to do certain activities this summer maybe we're not going to be able to go on vacation." Join the club, you whining son of a...
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posted on
07/08/2012 3:23:17 PM PDT
by
who knows what evil?
(G-d saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.org.)
To: kingattax
Hey! Scranton public employees!
Deal with it!
The City is broke!
Any Union contract is worth nothing more used toilet paper.
Be happy you're getting the money you are and even the mayor is getting the same amount.
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posted on
07/08/2012 3:26:25 PM PDT
by
SandRat
(Duty - Honor - Country! What else needs said?)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
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posted on
07/08/2012 3:28:13 PM PDT
by
4Liberty
(88% of Americans are NON-UNION. We value honest, peaceful Free trade-NOT protectionist CARTELS)
To: kingattax
I wonder how many public union employee were laid off to try meet the budget shortfall.....my guess none...
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posted on
07/08/2012 3:28:20 PM PDT
by
Popman
(When you elect a clown: expect a circus...)
To: kingattax
They should jump over into the privare sector, it’s doing fine, according to Joe Weisenrthal as well as BO.
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posted on
07/08/2012 3:29:11 PM PDT
by
gusopol3
To: kingattax
Los Angeles and San Francisco should do the same thing.
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posted on
07/08/2012 3:29:11 PM PDT
by
RC2
(Buy American and support the Wounded Warrior Project whenever possible.)
To: Vigilanteman
I think plugs was born there.
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posted on
07/08/2012 3:31:48 PM PDT
by
gusopol3
To: kingattax
Columnist with a little more about the city’s current budget plans:
http://thetimes-tribune.com/opinion/editorials-columns/christopher-j-kelly/kelly-column-stay-tuned-for-absurdity-disaster-in-scranton-1.1340584
“... the city doesn’t own its stormwater management system and never did. This matters because selling it to the Scranton Sewer Authority for $5 million was a central component of Mayor Chris Doherty’s financial recovery plan. He apparently did not know that the SSA owns the system, making it a tough sell, even for a salesman as slick as Mr. Doherty.
The city council “supermajority” led by President Janet Evans was apparently as clueless as the administration. The impossible sale of an asset the city doesn’t own was the lone element of Mr. Doherty’s plan that Mrs. Evans and Co. supported.”
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posted on
07/08/2012 3:33:56 PM PDT
by
mrsmith
(Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat Party!)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
“You cant get blood out of a turnip. Without a court injunction.”
The thing of it is, you can’t get blood out of a turnip even with a court injunction.
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posted on
07/08/2012 3:34:44 PM PDT
by
jocon307
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