Switzerland’s taxpayers are paying the price for their liberal government. The same government that opened its arms wide to the massive migration from countries like Somalia.
Although they have now been in the country for 2 years, 80% of the Somalians in Switzerland are collecting welfare checks like they were Babe Ruth rookie cards. Of the 4000 Somalians in Switzerland, 83.7% of them are collecting welfare. Refugees from two other countries are collecting at a rate of over 50%, such as Eritreans at 54.7 percent and Angolans at 54 percent.
And how many of the Swiss are collecting welfare? A mere 2.3%. That’s quite a contrast.
The statistics greatly contrast with the number of Swiss nationals on welfare, at a mere 2.3 per cent of the population — although Japanese nationals were the lowest of all at only 0.6 per cent.
Damian Müller of the Swiss Liberals (FDP) said that the figures show that both far too many asylum seekers not qualified for asylum were living on state handouts and that not enough was being done to integrate those with refugee status into the Swiss economy.
“Integration is not a one-way street,” he insisted, adding, “refugees are [also] responsible.”
Bachir Gobdon of the Somali Diaspora association attributed some of the blame for the high rates of welfare in the Somali community to the average family size, saying, “For example, they work in the hospitality industry, where wages are low. A family that has seven children, for example, cannot live on it.”
Figures released last summer showed that while Swedes had a rate of only 3.6 per cent unemployment, while the figure for migrants was 19.9 per cent.
In Germany, a report from the German Federal Employment Agency last year revealed that more than half of those on the Hartz IV welfare programme were migrants, with migrant welfare recipients increasing by 69 per cent since 2010 while Germans on welfare declined by 20 per cent.