Scranton Pennsylvania, childhood home of our vice president, Lunch Bucket Joe Biden, is broke.  And in a delicious irony, the Democrat mayor, unable to grease a tax hike through his city council, has taken to using city employees, the “public servants” so adored by the Democrat Party, as blunt instruments, cutting their pay to minimum wage.

Without commenting on whether that’s a valuation of their contributions to civic society it does cause a chuckle. The President borrows from China to fund local public employment – and collect the campaign contributions provided by the public employee unions – and the mayor cares not a wit about serving the taxpayers who elected him.

Nearly every large municipality has been managed to the edge of bankruptcy by 50 years of Progressive politics.

And, Atlas Shrugged.