Denmark has done something sensible – and remarkably, its left-wing politicians have been the ones promoting the measure – by proposing that migrants be required to work 37 hours a week in order to receive welfare benefits. If they refuse, they will be stripped of their benefits and, presumably, will either capitulate and go to work, or leave Denmark, in order to move to another European country that might take them in, or to return to their countries – overwhelmingly Muslim — of origin.
A report on this commonsensical measure is discussed here: “Denmark proposes making migrants work 37 hours a week to earn benefits because ‘there are too many, especially with non-Western backgrounds, who do not have a job,'” MailOnline,
Denmark has proposed making migrants work 37 hours a week to earn welfare benefits because “there are too many, especially with non-Western backgrounds, who do not have a job’.
Economic migrants in Europe – delicately alluded to as those “with non-Western backgrounds” — are almost all from Muslim lands: Syria, Iraq, Morocco, Algeria, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Turkey. They have seen a good thing in the generous welfare benefits that European welfare states provide, and have flooded into Europe, by land and sea, legally and (mostly) illegally, characterizing themselves as “refugees” in need of “asylum” – one million of them being admitted, in 2015 alone, to Germany — in the hope of settling in the midst of Western Infidels whom they have been taught to despise, but who provide them with free or subsidized housing, free education, free medical care, family allowances, and more.
Many of these migrants have been quite content with all these benefits, and see no reason why they should be made to go to work to earn them. The unemployment rates for Muslim migrants all over Europe is many times higher than the rates for both the indigenous Europeans, and for other, non-Muslim migrants. It costs billions of dollars to support the tens of millions of Muslim migrants now in Europe, who are provided with subsidized or free housing, free education, free medical care, and more. That is money that is not available for other social programs, such as aid to the elderly. Danes, who had once been so naively welcoming to these migrants, have been mugged by experience, and now back a proposal to force economic migrants, after they have enjoyed three years of benefits, either to find a 37-hour-a-week job, or to accept whatever employment is offered by the government. They must now “earn” those benefits that until now they have been pocketing with such a maddening sense of entitlement.
The proposal by the minority Social Democratic government, a traditionally left wing administration that has adopted right wing anti-immigration policies, would require migrants who have been on benefits for at least three years to find work.
Note that it is the left-wing administration of the Social Democrats who are pushing this proposal; they see themselves as stewards of the welfare state, and do not want it to be exploited, or drained of needed resources, by people who never contributed to it in the first place, but simply arrived in Denmark to profit from its munificence, and while in no hurry to find employment, continue to take advantage of every benefit the Danes provide.
It [the Social Democratic Party] said the programme was necessary because many women of foreign descent do not work, especially those with roots in the Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan, Pakistan and Turkey.
The required-work program is necessary for two reasons. First, Muslim women are discouraged by their husbands and fathers from working outside the home. They are supposed to be homemakers, and to be mothers of large broods, demographically expanding the power of Islam, but not to go out to work where, conceivably, they might have to interact with male Infidels, and would certainly become more independent of their menfolk, and that would never do. The Social Democrats understand that Muslim women must be prodded, even forced, by the law to enter the workforce and at the same time,they need to be protected by the law from their husbands, who have been so intent on keeping them home, by making such work a requirement. Second, Muslim males in Europe have shown little inclination to find work; the benefits they receive are so generous that they see no need to work. They are unembarrassed about this. In their understanding of the world, they are living on what the infamous British imam Anjem Choudary called the “Jihad Seeker’s Allowance.” The benefits they receive from the Infidels – like the Danes – are a form of proleptic Jizyah. Now the Danes, both on left and right, are fed up with this state of affairs, and are about to institute a mandatory work requirement.
‘If you come to Denmark, you have to work and support yourself and your family,’ the proposal stated.
‘If one cannot support oneself, one must have a duty to participate and contribute what is equivalent to a regular working week to receive the full welfare benefit.’
The bill provides, for those unable to find work, the possibility of jobs – menial, of course — offered by the government. Everyone is thus eligible for employment, no matter how low their level of skills. As long as they put in 37 hours a week, they can continue to receive welfare benefits. But a refusal to work, because the job offered is not to a migrant’s liking, will not be tolerated.
Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen has claimed the policy is intended to help migrants integrate into Danish society, with plans to encourage them to learn the language, but the proposal has been widely criticised as unfair.
Who has “widely criticized” the proposal as “unfair”? Not the Danes, who from left to right support it. It’s the migrants themselves, and their local advocates, who find it “unfair” that they should be made – after three years of idleness – to finally go to work and earn their benefits rather than continue to be supported by the hard-working Danes. It’s not a stand that has won many supporters. If it passes in Denmark, similar measures are likely to be proposed, and adopted, throughout Europe, where the same problem is found of Muslim economic migrants who do not wish to work.
The proposal by the minority Social Democratic government supported the proposal with the claim many women of foreign descent remain outside the labour market, especially those with roots in the Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Turkey.
These are all Muslim lands. Everyone in Denmark knows it is not “migrants” in general, but Muslim males, who prevent “their women” from seeking work outside the home. But if they wish to live in Denmark, they will have to conform to Danish laws and Danish mores, and that includes the strict equality of the sexes that Danes insist upon.
The programme would start with those who are able to speak some Danish and they would be given skills training by the local government.
Not much knowledge of Danish would be needed for the kinds of jobs many of these Muslim migrants are likely to qualify for: sanitation workers, street sweepers, busboys, taxi drivers, stockboys, and suchlike. These are jobs that they could fill right now even if they can barely communicate with Danes. If some manage to learn enough Danish — language lessons are offered free by the Danish government — they could become sales clerks, or man telephone banks. Some could receive enough “skills training” to work as hospital orderlies or even as nurses; some could be trained in the simples of computer skills, to input information into databases.
What matters is not what these Muslim migrants do, but that they be made to do something, for a certain number of hours per week that in Denmark is considered to be full-time employment, so as to earn the generous welfare benefits that they came to Denmark to enjoy without planning to work. One more time: these include free or greatly-subsidized housing, free medical care, free housing, family allowances. The requirement that all of these migrants, adult males and females, be required to work at least 37 hours a week, will have good effects. First, those who remain unwilling to accept these new rules, and refuse to work, or to work for the full 37 hours, will have their benefits reduced or, ideally, ended entirely. Such a result should encourage some of them to leave Denmark, to settle in another, generous and still undemanding Infidel state or perhaps to return to their Muslim countries.
Second, the word will quickly go out to economic migrants thinking of moving to Denmark that a new work requirement makes that country suddenly far less desirable, and that they had best find other countries to settle in, where they can continue, without working, to live off the government, which is to say, the indigenous taxpayers.
No date has yet been set for the 179-seat parliament to vote on the proposal.
Although the Social Democrats do not have a majority, they would be likely to get support from centre-right politicians to pass it.
Though traditionally left wing, Frederiksen’s party adopted right wing anti-immigration policies when she took power in 2019 and is now targeting zero asylum claims.
I take this to mean that Frederiksen’s left-wing party is aiming ultimately to admit “zero” Muslim asylum seekers. And if “asylum seekers” are not to be admitted, then surely economic migrants, who do not tug at our heartstrings as some “asylum seekers” do, will also be barred. If such legislation is passed, it is likely to serve as a model for other European countries to emulate, countries that may be reinforced in their own attempt to halt all Muslim migration, and even to send back to their countries of origin those who refuse to work a full work week. It would constitute a revolution in European immigration policy: not a case of “fewer” Muslims being admitted but, rather, of none at all. And the work requirement, if it spreads from Denmark to the rest of Europe, will certainly cause some – perhaps many – of the Muslims already in European countries to leave. Particularly upsetting to them would be if they are forced to take the only jobs for which they are adequately prepared, that is, menial work that they deem, because they are the “best of peoples,” beneath them.
Frederiksen has blamed the crackdown on immigration on the need to protect Denmark’s welfare system so it can continue to accommodate migrants already in the country.
It is clever of Mette Frederiksen to depict her proposal as necessary “to protect Denmark’s welfare system.” New – largely Muslim – immigrants need to be discouraged from arriving, which is what a work requirement would do. These potential new immigrants, if not discouraged, would become at once a terrific financial burden on the welfare state (as Muslim migrants already settled in Denmark have been) so that native Danes receiving welfare benefits would no longer be adequately supported. The same work requirement that is to be applied to new immigrants should also apply to those immigrants – overwhelmingly Muslim – who are already in the country, and have enjoyed years of living on the Danish dole while feeling no need to be employed.
The proposal has been widely criticised as unfair [by the far-left], with Mai Villadsen, a member of the opposition Red-Green Alliance, branding the idea ‘foolish’.
She argued that it could lead to a downward pressure on the wages of other workers.
‘The foundation of our welfare society is a strong safety net,’ Ms Villadsen wrote on Twitter.
No, Mai Villadsen has it wrong. First, there will be no “downward pressure” on the wages of menial workers, which Is what most of these Muslim migrants will be, since the Danish government sets the minimum wage.
Second, the benefits of a “strong safety net” should only be made available to those who have in the past been contributors, through their taxes, to the welfare state. Those Danes who have fallen into economic hard times, through no fault of their own, such as small business owners forced to close during the coronavirus pandemic, or rendered obsolete through technological advances, as well as those who have special expenses (e.g., for the care of a child with a disability), and those Danes who are elderly, and after decades of work find upon retirement that their pensions prove insufficient, are the people who have earned the right to be supported by a “strong safety net.” Those who have arrived, as economic migrants, to take full advantage of a welfare system to which they have not contributed one thin dime or kroner, have no reason to complain when a work requirement is imposed on them, and that only after three years of willed idleness have passed. The “safety net” needs to be paid for; the migrants who refuse to work, even at the simplest jobs, are leaching the welfare system of revenue it needs for those Danes who have paid for decades into the system.
The proposal was tabled by the Social Democratic government who claim women of foreign descent remain outside the labor market.
Women’s equality for Muslim women includes the right to join the labor market, to work outside the home, to have all the rights that Danish women possess. Muslim women seem far readier to work than Muslim men; for the women, working is not merely a source of income but provides the sense of independence that they long for, and that in Muslim countries is denied them.
The Social Democratic government stated in the proposal, ‘if you come to Denmark, you have to work and support yourself and your family.”…
Could anyone except the Muslims be outraged by such an obvious requirement? Nothing could be fairer, nor more infuriating to Muslims who believe the world of Infidels owes them a living.
If there are not enough 37-hour-per-week jobs available from private employers, it is not beyond the ability of the public sector – the various governmental agencies – to offer full-time jobs, albeit menial ones, to migrants. And of course, it is possible that migrants could take on more than one job – many Americans work two or three jobs to make ends meet – to fulfill the 37-hour requirement.
What should we call this insistence of the Social Democrats in Denmark, that “if you come to Denmark, you have to work and support yourself and your family”?
I’d call it Common Sense.
maria says
Denmark is the most sensible country in Europe. And they love their country and his own people.
If you to Europe visit Denmark and learn how the real patriotic country works
gravenimage says
Mostly, but not always, Maria:
“Denmark: Minister impeached for separating child brides from adult Muslim migrant husbands”
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2021/09/denmark-minister-impeached-for-separating-child-brides-from-adult-muslim-migrant-husbands
mortimer says
Little Denmark, with the most charitable of motives, naively brought in over 230,000 Muslim migrants. They soon became over 4% of the population, but these Muslims did not generally get jobs, the women remained on welfare, had more children, and almost none of them assimilated. Moreover, the crime rate among Muslims in Denmark was multiples higher than that of native Danes. The very proper (and exceedingly honest) Danes, then became thoroughly scandalized by the high rate of Muslim criminality.
Researcher/psychologist Nikolai Sennels discovered that incarcerated Muslim criminals considered their crimes to be part of jihad against infidels … thus, they considered their criminality justified by their religion. This was a shocking revelation which took years for the compassionate Danes to accept, but they are accepting it now. Too many Muslims are getting their money from criminality and welfare fraud.
This research and that of others has gradually infiltrated the minds of the scrupulously honest Danish people. Even the Queen Margaret spoke out about the alarming lack of assimilation. Finally, the Danes are protecting their little country.
Muslim criminality is the DEAL BREAKER for Denmark.
john smith says
Good post Mortimer, full of information as we can always expect from you.
Westman says
The more destructive fruit of Muslim immigrants is not the raised criminality – it’s the Muslim population bomb. Danes are at less than sustaining reproduction while Muslims are at 3 or so times sustaining. That 4% will rise dramatically every 20 years as the Muslim population triples via reproduction.
If Denmark is unable to get Muslim women to work outside the home or the Muslim men to work, then Denmark will fade away like the Cheshire Cat in a reverse assimilation.
Michael Copeland says
Commodify sense. At last. Beginning to penetrate.
mortimer says
The practical Danes have discussed this among themselves and reached the consensus that Muslims are not benefiting their little country. Now even the Leftards agree … so it’s pretty bad.
Yogi says
This never happen In Germany or France or Sweden, Holland, Uk. Shame on you leaders to sell own people to enemies.
Keith O says
Yogi, The same pathetic routine has/is happening here in Australia.
The Greens party as well as the Liberals have worked out that by keeping the mudslimes in the manner they demand, said mudslimes will vote for them and help to keep these lazy, treasonous politicians in their over paid, underworked positions of power.
Meanwhile, we have friendly nations like China, Pakistan, Nigeria etc. pissing themselves laughing at us.
We need to import a few of the Danes to sort things out!
DavidR says
Not many of these immigrants will be prepared to take orders from non Muslims who may be female or even gay. On top of that their younger children will have to go to some sort of state run or funded day care where boys and girls and everything else are treated the same. Look for mass emigration to France where they will claim to be refugees escaping the paid slavery that’s also called a job.
Fitna says
Well I’m about as anti-Islam as they come, so these policies will never be good enough for me. Every Muslim man sees himself as copycat of Mohammad, a pedohile-warlord. They are narcissistic, hyper-aggressive, sociopathic and capable of great violence and destruction. Not one Muslim should be allowed in any non-Islamic nation, they’ve stolen enough land from us non-Muslims, so they need to go back.
Sadly Muslims prevert everything they touch. The welfare state existed to help genuine people in need. Now these economic migrants/parasites have taken benefits that should’ve gone to native citizens or legit refugees but are instead sustaining a population that has no connection or loyalty to its host nation.
Could anyone imagine millions of non-Muslims fleeing to Muslim nations for free benefits? Why are we allowing this? Muslims do this because they know we’re harmless, stupid and we’re suckers. Perhaps now, 20 years after 9/11 the truth is slowly dawning on the bleeding-heart types that Muslims are not the lovely, ideal victim-migrants they see them as. I won’t be happy until they’re gone except the real victims like child-brides, or other women in an abusive relationship with these men.
This is a step in the right direction but far more needs to be done. Deportation should always be on the table if these invaders refuse to work, learn the language and not adopt our values and customs. But the truth we all know is that even if they do everything we asked, their heart and soul belongs to Islam and they can at any point decide to wage jihad against us, so these are really pointless exercises, they don’t belong here. It’s wiser just to send them back-give them $5k to resettle, it’ll be far cheaper that the price you pay in the long run.
I recall last Xmas or the one before, there were Muslims who were caught destroying Christmas trees in a mall. That isn’t a petty crime or vandalism but a war on our way of life. If the infidels weren’t so stupid they would’ve thrown them out the same day.
Mortimer raised a good point above about the overrepresentation of Muslims involved in criminality and that wasn’t something the Denmark govt covered-but it is a very serious issue. Wherever Muslims go, they engage in fraud, theft, the drug trade, prostitution and other criminal behavior. That should be strongly taken into consideration in their calculus.
These migrants have no right to be in the West, so they should be dealt with an iron fist-they need new laws to make it easier to deport them for engaging in crime-remember it’s largely the native citizens who pay the price for their bad behavior.
tim gallagher says
So it seems as if the useless, welfare bludging parasites, mostly Muslims, that have been invading Denmark have finally managed to piss off even the fairly left wing government there. I’m sure that the story would be the same in all other western countries that have foolishly taken in the invading Muslim parasites, so, maybe, other European countries will also decide to tell the parasites to get off their arses and go out and do some work. It is a far better idea to refuse to let the Muslim parasites in in the first place, like Hungary does, but this is surely a move in the right direction by Denmark. Good luck though with trying to get the useless parasites to actually do any work. After all, Muslims generally expect the hated infidels to do all the work and provide everything for them while they try to take over and impose barbaric islam on everybody.
nicholas tesdorf says
Having to work 37 hours a week will come as a shock to the Muslims as Mohammed told them that the Kuffar will pay them the Jizzyah as tribute and they can own slaves to do the work.
gravenimage says
Denmark Wants Migrants to Work 37 Hours a Week
……………..
A small bit of sanity from Denmark.
Infidel says
That is more hours than some hourly full time positions here. ? Not that I’m complainin’
gravenimage says
I’m from the US where most full time positions are 40 hours a week. It is different from salaried (rather than hourly) positions–but many of these wind up being more than 40 hours a week.
Minor point, though–37 hours a week is pretty close to full time.
James Lincoln says
gravenimage,
There is not a universally recognized number of weekly work hours that constitutes a “full-time” employee in United States, however 32 hours is generally seen as the absolute minimum.
https://www.employmentlawhandbook.com/general/full-time-employee/
Infidel says
Graven
In my last full time job at a retail store, where I had a varying number of hours every week, they were always over 32 but rarely anywhere near 40. I would have loved it had it been higher, but it typically hovered around 35
gravenimage says
True, James and Infidel.
Infidel, some companies keep many employees below 40 hours a week specifically so they don’t have to extend them medical and other benefits offered to full-time employees (not that I am condoning this practice).
Mirjam says
To employ them as taxi drivers does not seem to be a good idea as they will be ill tempered for being forced to work etc. Apart from that hopefully this politics will be applied also in other Eiropean countries.
Liz H. says
For the time being this proposal have full backing in the media.
But the bill stille has to be passed, and then implemented by the mostly left wing do-good’es who populate the offices of the Danish welfare state.
When the social workers sit face to face with ‘clients’ there is much weeping done. When ‘the client’ leaves the municipal office victoriously there is much celebration in the homes of the ghetto: Fooled the idiot Danes once again!
The best policy would be to limit the pay out of child benefits to max. 3 children. With 5-6 under aged children the women receive more income in benefits than any hard working infidel can ever earn.
Giacomo Latta says
The good thing about the EU’s invisible borders is that one state can apply a little discipline jizya-wise sending variously freeloaders to escape easily to other states. These other states may quickly end up with more muslims than even the Left can tolerate, a well-merited result.
OLD GUY says
What a novel idea having to work for a living.
Billy Chickens says
Since many Muslims consider free benefits from infidels as dhimmi tax owed to them as per Islam, it’s doubtful that they will work for it.
Mirren10 says
The idea of Muslims being allowed to be nurses and health workers gives me the horrors.
I’m all for making them earn their benefits, but people whose religion teaches them to hate non-Muslims should *not* be allowed jobs where vulnerable people are involved.
gravenimage says
Agreed, Mirren. Really best to stop the importation of Muslims into the west.
And good to see you posting again!