CAMPAIGN AGAINST CORPORATE GREED WOULD GIVE THE PRESIDENT A LANDSLIDE VICTORY.(RELIGION)

Byline: Andrew Greeley

CHICAGO -- There is a world's worth of difference between losing one's job and losing one's life.

But the mass firings of workers that are occurring with increasing frequency in American corporations have one thing in common with ethnic cleansing in what used to be Yugoslavia. In both cases, perpetrators engage in brutal actions because they refuse to recognize the humanity of their victims.

While corporate bosses such as AT&T's Robert Allen, who fired 40,000 workers and walked off with $16 million in salary and options last year, don't actually kill anyone, they are able to indulge in mass firings because they have dehumanized workers, just as the …