VATICAN CITY (Reuters) -Pope Francis has ordered cardinals to take a 10% pay cut and reduced the salaries of most other clerics working in the Vatican in order to save jobs of employees as the coronavirus pandemic has hit the Holy See’s income. The Vatican said on Wednesday that Francis issued a decree introducing proportional cuts starting on April 1. A spokesman said most lay employees would not be affected by the cuts.
A senior Vatican prelate said it was believed to be the first time in living memory that a pope had taken such action.
Francis, 84, and from a working class family, has often insisted he does not want to fire people in difficult economic times, even as the Vatican continues to run up deficits.
Cardinals who work at the Vatican and live there or in Rome are believed to get salaries of about 4,000 to 5,000 euros ($4,730 to $5,915) a month, and many live in large apartments at well below market rents.......
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So far the Vatican's billions have seemed totally economics-proof. But don't worry, Frankie will be reality-proof on it -- he'll never connect the dots that pushing communism destroys an economy, hisself included. Mebbe it's just empty virtue-signaling along 'tax the rich' lines.
More floating around my screen at the moment: unthinkable train and bridge video courtesy of my exciting new find, Strange Sounds
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Heard on the Driver show today -- is it really all true?=
So let me get this straight 🤔
We have a president with dementia.
An ex call girl for a Vice President.
A transvestite over our Health and Human services.
A presidents son who is a crackhead, a human trafficking pedophile who money laundered billions from other countries sharing half with his dad.
A crackheads buddy is the head of the DEA. 😂
Hunter’s other buddy is now in the department of JUSTICE??
A guy who is sleeping with the Chinese SPY is over our Homeland Security!? 😣
We are borrowing all of our money now from China!!
Hundreds of Thousands of Immigrants are coming in for our JOBS and Social Security Benefits. 😡
AND... they are still focusing on impeaching a president that is not there anymore.
Add this in with 40,000 jobs lost in the 1st week! Yet Biden is pro- America??
Ouch: Laboring cow kicks a woman in the face
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