Germany’s Bonanza! Diversity Has a Name — And a Price Tag! By Richard Miller (Londonistan)
Hold onto your sauerkraut, Germany, diversity has officially arrived at your doorstep, and it's called Mohammed. Or Mohamed. Or Muhammad. Or Mahamadou. Actually, call it all of them, because collectively they now outnumber Michael, Andreas, and Thomas etc. on the Bürgergeld rolls. That's right: German taxes are funding a multicultural dream team, and it's spectacularly expensive.
Recent government data finally fixed the "spelling error problem," revealing that 39,280 people with Mohammed-like names are now officially leading the welfare leader board. Michael comes in a distant second, looking like the tax-friendly nostalgia act it is. Ahmad, Ali, and a few other exotic newcomers round out the top 10. Think of it as Eurovision for welfare, the entries are exciting, the points are Germany's, and the bill is… very real.
And the figures? Stunning. Almost half of the 5.42 million Bürgergeld recipients are non-Germans, while the rest are "naturalised" Germans, secretly still part of the diversity party. Nearly €9 billion of the 2024 housing support budget went to foreigners. That's right: €9 billion, carefully invested in multicultural apartments, bureaucracy, and a living case study in social engineering.
CDU/CSU politicians are finally whispering what German wallets have been shouting all along: diversity is fun …until the ledger arrives. Mathias Middelberg pointed out that nudging just 100,000 people into work could save billions. Yes, billions. In other words, Germany could have a slightly smaller diversity extravaganza, and a slightly happier treasury.
Meanwhile, visionary Social Democrats in Thuringia are experimenting with radical new ideas: social benefits for non-EU migrants as loans, repayable once they find employment. Revolutionary. Thrilling. Probably will trigger a committee meeting. Good luck getting the loans ever paid back.
So here we are: Germany, gleaming beacon of multicultural excitement, led by Mohammed and friends, funded by German taxes, and skyrocketing in bureaucratic glory. The thrill is palpable. The bill? Even more so. All the way to economic collapse.
"New figures released by Germany's federal government have reshaped the rankings of citizen's allowance recipients in the country, placing Mohammed and its many spelling variants at the top of the list.
A recent government response to an Alternative for Germany (AfD) inquiry originally suggested that Michael, Andreas, Thomas, and Daniel were the most frequent first names among those receiving the allowance, known locally as Bürgergeld. However, the government's list had separated different spellings of the same name, resulting in distortions.
AfD lawmaker René Springer requested additional data that consolidated all variations of the same name. The government's updated response, obtained by Bild, shows that Mohammed — counted across 19 different spellings and variants such as Mohamed, Muhammad, and Mahamadou — now ranks first with 39,280 entries.
By comparison, Michael (including Michel, Mischa, and Maik) comes second with 24,660 entries, followed by Ahmad (20,660), Andreas (18,420), and Thomas (17,920). Names with fewer spelling variations, such as Andreas and Thomas, lost ground, while Ahmad, which has multiple common versions including Achmet and Amed, rose to third place.
The federal government stressed that first names cannot be used to directly determine nationality, though they undeniably serve as an indicator of native Germans and those of a migration background.
Three Islamic names, Mohammed, Ahmad, and Ali, were included in the top 10 first names of recipients.
At the end of 2024, a total of 5.42 million people in Germany received a citizen's allowance, including 2.82 million Germans (52 percent) and 2.6 million foreigners (48 percent).
Critics argue that these numbers understate the role of foreign-born individuals, since many migrants are now naturalized German citizens and therefore counted as "German" in the statistics. Bild also reported that nearly half of Germany's €17.68 billion housing support budget for 2024 went to foreigners.
The debate comes as the Federal Employment Agency continues to advertise welfare benefits to migrants, with parts of its website dedicated to "people from abroad," promising financial support to cover living expenses.
Germany's governing CDU/CSU bloc is finally calling for stricter limits on migrant reliance on welfare. Deputy parliamentary leader Mathias Middelberg argued earlier this week that job centers need to do more to integrate Afghans and Syrians into work. "Just 100,000 more people in work instead of relying on the citizen's allowance could, depending on wage levels, relieve the federal budget in the low single-digit billion range every year," Middelberg said.
Government figures show that 52.8 percent of Syrians and 46.7 percent of Afghans in Germany receive a citizen's allowance, while fewer than 40 percent in both groups are in jobs subject to social security contributions.
"We cannot accept that hundreds of thousands of young asylum seekers here in Germany are unemployed for decades," Middelberg added.
Earlier this month, two Social Democratic Party district administrators in Thuringia also broke with their party's national leadership by demanding that non-EU migrants, including asylum seekers and recognized refugees, should receive social benefits only as interest-free loans, repayable once they find employment.
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