Scranton Is America&#39;s Most Financially Fucked City  Sure,
it's true, cities and counties from Alabama to California have
given up and declared bankruptcy due to this ongoing Recesssion
of Doom. Hell, San Bernardino just declared bankruptcy
yesterday. But those cities are quitters. They've taken
themselves out of contention, the losers. For an American city
that is still trying to survive financially, and failing
miserably, there is no better example than Scranton, PA—the
jewel of Lackawanna County.  You may know Scranton as the
setting for the fictional TV show "The Office." But from now on,
Scranton may be better known as "The City Where The Mayor
Illegally Cut Every Employee's Salary to Minimum Wage Because
The City Only Had $5K in the Bank and Nobody Would Lend It Any
Money Due to the City's Own Shadiness."  See, the unions
representing city workers are suing the hell out of the city
because the mayor cut everyone's wages down to $7.25 an hour.
When a court ordered the city not to do that, the mayor ju