{"id":1492492,"date":"2024-09-27T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-09-27T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/?p=1492492"},"modified":"2024-09-27T06:00:00","modified_gmt":"2024-09-27T10:00:00","slug":"immigration-does-not-work-not-even-economically-german-govt-needs-e10bn-more-in-welfare-payments-than-initial-forecasts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/immigration-does-not-work-not-even-economically-german-govt-needs-e10bn-more-in-welfare-payments-than-initial-forecasts\/1492492\/","title":{"rendered":"“Immigration Does Not Work, Not Even Economically” – German Govt Needs \u20ac10BN More In Welfare Payments Than Initial Forecasts"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Immigration Does Not Work, Not Even Economically” – German Govt Needs \u20ac10BN More In Welfare Payments Than Initial Forecasts<\/span><\/p>\n

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Via Remix News,<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

The German federal government has \u201cmiscalculated\u201d billions in welfare payments, known as citizens\u2019 money, with their initial estimate of \u20ac36 billion far short of the \u20ac46 billion reportedly needed.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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In documents obtained by Bild newspaper, the German labor ministry assumes an average of 2.9 million people are in need of welfare parents in the documents for the \u201c2025 budget,\u201d dated from August 2024. However, this document indicates that the expenditure on standard rates and accommodation costs is expected to total \u20ac45.6 billion, which is a far cry from the \u20ac36 billion set in the 2025 citizen\u2019s allowance budget.<\/p>\n

The huge discrepancy has sparked outrage, but Hubertus Heil\u2019s (SPD) labor ministry told Bild that the figures published \u201care not comprehensible and are methodologically based on several false assumptions\u2026 <\/strong>For example, a significant portion of the costs of accommodation are to be covered by the municipalities and are therefore not relevant to the federal budget in the amount stated.\u201d<\/p>\n

However, Heil\u2019s denial did not specify how far off Bild\u2019s figures were, and notably, Bild was citing internal documents from the ministry itself.<\/p>\n

The huge sums paid out due to citizens\u2019 money has become a politically explosive subject,<\/strong> first due to the enormous costs it is placing on the German taxpayers, second due to the fact that the German economy is facing a worker shortage, and third due to the huge number of foreigners taking advantage of this welfare system, as half of all recipients are foreigners and many of the others who are German citizens also have a migration background.<\/p>\n

\u201cImmigration doesn\u2019t work, not even economically. And if one were to differentiate between Germans based on their migration background, the picture would be even more devastating,\u201d<\/strong><\/em> MEP Maximilian Krah, who is a member of the AfD but remains unaffiliated in the European Parliament, wrote on X. He shared a graph showing how few Germans are actually receiving welfare payments.<\/p>\n

Einwanderung funktioniert nicht, auch nicht \u00f6konomisch. Und w\u00fcrde man bei den Deutschen noch nach Migrationshintergrund differenzieren, w\u00e4re das Bild noch verheerender. pic.twitter.com\/2NF3bP22Mf<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Dr. Maximilian Krah MdEP (@KrahMax) September 25, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n

However, he is not the only one calling into question Heil\u2019s numbers. Most recently,\u00a0the Federal Audit Office also cast doubt on Heil\u2019s budget, stating that the labor ministry\u2019s figures could only happen as budgeted if \u201c600,000 people entitled to benefits would stop receiving them altogether\u201d in 2025. These experts complained at the time that this was \u201cnot very realistic.\u201d<\/p>\n

Other parties are also attacking Heil. CDU\u2019s group vice-chairman Jens Spahn said the matter \u201cbordered on deliberate deception.\u201d<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, budget spokesman for the CDU\/CSU parliamentary group, Christian Haase, said: \u201cHeil is deliberately budgeting for false figures\u00a0in order to conceal the problems with the citizens\u2019 allowance,\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a scandal,\u201d<\/strong><\/em> he added.<\/p>\n

CDU general secretary Carsten Linnemann said the ruling left-liberal government \u201ccontinues to lie to itself, the budget will blow up in its face.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Even the Free Democrats (FDP), who belong to the ruling government, slammed the budget figures. FDP politician Torsten Herbst said he expected \u201cthe labor minister to present realistic figures in his draft budget.\u201d<\/p>\n

However, some of the harshest statements came from the AfD, which wrote on social media: \u201cLabor Minister Hubertus Heil (SPD) suddenly presents a new budget gap of almost \u20ac10 billion in the citizen\u2019s allowance. According to the minister\u2019s documents, his department expects citizen\u2019s allowance costs of almost \u20ac46 billion for 2025, although only \u20ac36 billion were officially reported.\u201d<\/p>\n

The party is now recommending mass deportations totaling 1.3 million people to plug the budget hole, which it claims would bring the welfare payments back in line with the original sum budgeted.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cIt must be remembered that around half of the citizen\u2019s allowance recipients are foreign citizens! Simply by deporting the approximately one million Syrians (as of the end of 2023) who no longer have a reason to flee, the citizen\u2019s allowance costs could be reduced enormously. The same applies to the approximately 300,000 foreigners who are required to leave the country (as of mid-2024).<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cThe Federal Audit Office had already cast doubt on the Minister of Labor\u2019s sugar-coated figures weeks ago, stating that the figures would only be correct if the number of citizens\u2019 allowance recipients fell by around 600,000 in 2025. Either Heil really miscalculated in an amateurish way or \u2013 which is much more likely \u2013 he deliberately wants to mislead the population. In both cases, such a Minister of Labor is completely unacceptable and underlines that the SPD does not care about our country.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Read more here…<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span>
\nFri, 09\/27\/2024 – 02:00<\/span><\/p>\n

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