There is one thing and one thing only politicians eventually respond to: losing votes to another political party over single issues.
Angela Merkel’s CDU/CSU sister parties are losing voters thanks to Merkel’s open arms policy on immigration.
Support for SPD, Merkel’s grand coalition partner has dropped to 20%, an all-time low.
Merkel had to do something, and she finally did.
Please consider Germany Plans 5-Year Benefit Ban for Jobless Migrants.
Germany is planning to ban EU migrants from most unemployment benefits for five years after their arrival in dramatic response to rightwing populist assaults on chancellor Angela Merkel’s liberal immigration policies.
The proposals, which are far tougher than had been expected even a few months ago, highlight the government’s concern over growing public anxiety about immigration and the related advance of the Alternative for Germany party, the most popular rightwing grouping since the second world war.
Most of the German debate has focused on the influx of 1m refugees from outside Europe. Yet there have also been arguments about the arrival of poor migrants from eastern European EU members — notably Romanians and Bulgarians — whose numbers soared after they secured full access to the bloc’s labour market in 2014.
“I full and clearly support freedom of movement [of workers in the EU],” said labour minister Andrea Nahles, detailing the plans. “But freedom of access to social welfare is something else.”
It is a sign of how much the AfD is shaking German politics that the proposals come from Ms Nahles, a leftwing social democrat. The SPD is suffering even more than Ms Merkel’s CDU/CSU bloc in the face of the AfD’s advance. Opinion polls show it around 20 per cent, an all-time low.
The proposals are likely to get a fair hearing from Ms Merkel’s CDU/CSU bloc. The Bavaria-based CSU has argued for tougher rules on EU migrants, sometimes courting controversy by associating east Europeans with social security fraud.
Its leader, Horst Seehofer — a leading Merkel critic — said on Thursday he was happy to see “Berlin is taking up years-old demands from Bavaria”.
Ms Nahles said the new laws would conform with EU law. She cited two recent European Court of Justice cases in which German officials’ rights to withhold benefits from unemployed EU migrants were supported on the grounds that the migrants had not been seeking work.
This may discourage future economic migration, but it may be too little, too late, for the migrants already in Germany.
If the ban does affect those already in Germany, what are the migrants going to do but resort to crime to get fed?
Mike “Mish” Shedlock
What will they do other than crime? How about work? Or private charity?
i’d start a very, very large hog farm.
http://www.infowars.com/dutch-welcome-pig-heads-left-at-migrants-camp-entrance-in-netherlands-graphic/
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You missed the biggest ( most alarming and horrifying ) part of the story:
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.The Turkish government has sent 970 clerics — most of whom do not speak German — to lead 900 mosques in Germany that are controlled by a branch of the Turkish government’s Directorate for Religious Affairs. Turkish clerics in Germany are effectively Turkish civil servants who do the bidding of the Turkish government.
During a trip to Berlin in November 2011, Erdogan declared: “Assimilation is a violation of human rights.” In February 2011, Erdogan told a crowd of more than 10,000 Turkish immigrants in Düsseldorf: “We are against assimilation. No one should be able to rip us away from our culture and civilization.” In February 2008, Erdogan told 16,000 Turkish immigrants in Cologne that “assimilation is a crime against humanity.”
For his part, Saudi Arabia’s King Salman recently announced a plan to finance the construction of 200 mosques in Germany to provide for the spiritual needs migrants and refugees who arrived there in 2015.
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Werrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrk Kamps?????????????
Recorded by both the U.K. Sun and Telegraph, Choundary says:
“We are on Jihad Seekers Allowance, we take the Jizya (protection money paid to Muslims by non-Muslims) which is ours anyway.
“The normal situation is to take money from the [non-Muslims] isn’t it? So this is the normal situation.”
“They give us the money. You work, give us the money. Allah Akbar, we take the money. Hopefully there is no one from the DSS (Department of Social Security) listening.”
“Ah, but you see people will say you are not working. But the normal situation is for you to take money from the Kuffar (non-Muslim) So we take Jihad Seeker’s Allowance.”
http://www.businessinsider.com/anjem-choudary-muslim-preacher-explains-government-assistance-to-fund-jihad-holy-war-2013-2
Now give the Germans the 2nd Amendment.
Can’t do that, because every time a German gets his hands on a gun he heads for France 😉
In this day and age, you should give up the dishonest, disgusting, and genocidal Anglo-American war propaganda against Germanic peoples in South Africa, Germany, and elsewhere.
In 1899, Americans were slaughtering Filipinos for fun and the British were slaughtering Boers, as practice for their mercantilist world wars.
France invaded Germany some 30 times. Napoleon.
http://ihr.org/books/connors/dealinginhate.shtml#pgfId-88
The USA started WWII with FDR fomenting war in Asia and Europe, ending up with 3/4 of the world under mass murder communism. Germans fought to the death to protect Europe from these rapists and butchers. Not one American died fighting communism when it counted. Americans fighting for freedom is a joke. Where is this freedom they have fought for? Versailles demanded Germany disarm.
Germany pre-emptively stopped a French invasion in 1870 and the Soviet invasion of Europe in 1941.
http://www.ihr.org/jhr/v16/v16n6p28_Michaels.html
America stabbed Europe in the back. All of Europe should remind Americans of what horror Americans give to Europe, including this CIA-backed mass invasion of non-Europeans.
American arrogance has destroyed country after country. You don’t save civilization by firebombing it. You don’t support self-determination of peoples but dividing the people and subjugating them by hostile powers. You don’t fight for freedom by alliances with mass murder communist slavery. You don’t make the world save for democracy, then destroy democratically-elected leaders who aren’t servile to Anglo-American selfishness, greed, and moral perversions.
America: exceptionally deluded.
It was Lord Ismay who remarked the purpose of NATO was to keep the Russians out, the French in and the Germans down.
If the neo-Nazi propaganda posted by LH doesn’t make present a cogent argument against dissolving the alliance, nothing will.
“…rightwing populist assaults on chancellor Angela Merkel’s liberal immigration policies.”
Rightwing? Populist (= popular?)? Yep yep…AfD wants to stop migrants seeking easy life on benefits so it seems we have POPULIST RIGHTWING party consisted of just normal tax payers that can count. This theme will get more support in the future. In Sweden the Sweden Democrats have been banned by other parties and they suggested a LIMIT on immigration, not a full closure of borders. Sweden has already fallen. The symptoms are there for all to see but the full-blown sickness is yet to come.
And, as article suggests, they are CONSIDERING some changes. With many Germans working under the new “Arbeit Macht Frei” programs getting few euros on top of their unemployment benefits, there are very few jobs available that one can support oneself and/or family without benefits. Under the surface, many are suffering in Germany. Elderly are forced back to work from retirement due to insufficient pensions.
They can always do what this family has done: http://www.breitbart.com/london/2016/04/28/pulitzer-prize-migrants-now-living-just-fine-in-iraq-son-is-a-criminal-in-germany/
Merkel had to stop payments to migrants because she has to come up with 6 Billion Euros to pay off Turkey’s Erdogan.
Speaking of immigrants did you all see what the FBI found on the terrorist’s phone? They found the guy that bought the guns, but they arrested another because he was trying to get his girlfriend a green card illegally. I just wanted to laugh and cry at the same time.
Here we are in the USA with millions of illegal immigrants and they arrest a guy for trying to help his girlfriend get a green card!!! What a laugh that was. Of course his girlfriend was Russian but who cares. We spent 1.5 million to crack a phone and it lead to a illegal immigration arrest and yet illegals protest on our capitols door steps. Pathetic.
The article is unclear. Nobody is eligible for unemployment benefits without an employment history. There are other possible welfare benefits, but everybody on benefits is obliged to seek employment unless infirm. It remains unclear exactly what is being proposed here.
Just applies to EU migrants it seems
http://m.dw.com/en/german-minister-proposes-law-to-limit-social-benefits-for-eu-foreigners/a-19221812
Over 25 percent of the population in Europe receives pension. Sweden brought in migrants to work… today Sweden is forced to feed them as well.
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Dear Mish,
you said: “If the ban does affect those already in Germany, what are the migrants going to do but resort to crime to get fed? ”
This is the solution that Merkel had concocted, they will deport legally all those resorting to crime. And i meant mass deportation….