[sirchtruth]

This is the most ridiculous non-nonsensical ruling ever. One week of original pay would wipe Scranton clean. WTH are these miscreants union dumbasses going to do when there are NO funds to pay them with the next week, demand more???

[Terry Mross]

The mayor should simply write them some hot checks. When they bounce and they try to get him on charges of writing checks with insufficient funds he can say “I did what the judge ordered me to do.”

[Oztrich Boy]

The good people at Dem You! have a number of immediate solutions

• yes I have plenty of other ideas. Have you ever heard of socialism? What it will do is put the means of production in the hands of the workers. No more billionaires while others are homeless ...
• OK so then the state or federal gov't will have to move some money from a wealthier population to this poorer one. Easy peasy. Problem solved.
• As for Scranton's particular difficulties, situated as it is within a larger capitalist-imperialist economy and political landscape, I could see workers' cooperatives forming volunteer fire, police and health care brigades, but also other cooperatives as well, such as nutritional, educational and even arts.
• Can the state not step in and assist? Maybe help in the short term and help the city with long term financial planning, or perhaps allow these people to claim unemployment?
• Grover Norquist needs to be sentenced to life without parole in prison

So it seems there is really no crisis