From: Jurriaan Bendien (adsl675281@TISCALI.NL)
Date: Sun Oct 15 2006 - 14:11:28 EDT
Marx is now a bishop and he's still lashing capitalism - 03/10/06 A German Catholic bishop from the birthplace of his famous namesake, Karl Marx, has hit out at the greed and excess of top management salaries at a time of great economic duress for many. Bosses salaries and perks have gone up by some 30 per cent at the same time as companies have been plunged into bankruptcy jobs for workers cut. This has caused widespread anger and resentment. Bishop Reinhard Marx, the Catholic bishop of Trier and chairperson of the German Episcopal Commission for Society and Social Matters, told the local newspaper, Trierischer Volksfreund, that he thought salary hikes of this kind were "audacious". [="kühn"?] http://www.ekklesia.co.uk/content/news_syndication/article_06103marx.shtml
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