Someone Forgot to Lock the Gates of Vienna Behind Them

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Well, it’s kind of a bummer that winged hussars are few and far between these days – at least the heroes on horseback are. I guess there are still plenty of feathered ones in drag shows.

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It’s hard to say if the Austrians are aware of what’s happened to their country in the ‘Holy CRAP, this has to end NOW‘ sense. 

Or if they going to sink into the same helpless morass of ‘Man, this sucks‘ while seemingly unable – or unwilling – to lift a finger to save their Austrian national identity while there’s still time.

In any event, there may not be enough time even if the brakes came on now.

Vienna is a prime example.

Like a fairy tale, no?

The school system has received a bit of a jolt after looking at its enrollment figures.

It has teachers looking for schools elsewhere to teach in, thanks to standards being lowered and the daily frustration of having to repeat sentences 10-12 times. Frantic parents are going berserk seeking answers and help as their native language slips to second place in many classrooms.

Austria’s largest opposition party, the Freedom Party, has sharply criticized the development saying Austrians will soon be “strangers in their own country”

For the first time in Vienna, ethnic Australians have become a minority in the city’s elementary schools, with Muslim students ballooning to be the single largest majority. 

The development has caused widespread anxiety, with a large number of frustrated teachers quitting their jobs and moving to rural areas while parents of ethnic Austrian children expressing dismay.

…Many teachers are looking for schools where German is the dominant language and incidents of classroom violence are low.

Vienna’s city councillor for education, Bettina Emmerling, has issued a warning of her own.

‘In Vienna, no one should base their way of life on the fundamentalist interpretations of religious texts that are hostile to women, minorities, the state or democracy,’ Emmerling told the media.

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It’s no wonder the immigrant influx has affected well-to-do Vienna first. Benefits for public assistance programs for asylum seeker families are set by individual states across Austria, and Vienna has extremely generous handouts to newcomers.

A recent report has eyebrows raised – and some internal temperatures – when it exposed just how generous those handouts were.

New data has revealed that asylum seeker families in Vienna could receive almost €50,000 a year in benefits, sparking a debate about what some saw as overly generous welfare payments.

According to calculations by the Ministry of Integration published on April 17, a family of five – father, mother and three children – received more than €48,000 in welfare payments annually in the Austrian capital.

That did not include other financial advantages for welfare recipients such as exemptions from television taxes (€200 per year), medicine prescription fees and reduced prices for public transport and museums entry.

Notably, the figure put out by the ministry was higher than what many Austrian families with working parents could expect to have as disposable after-tax income.

The average wage in Austria in 2024 was €60,000 per year before tax. This translated to €41,000 after tax. Even counting tax rebates for three underage children, the total was €47,000 – without any of the additional welfare benefits.

Yeah. That could frost a hard-working hide.

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Also, a €60,000 yearly salary is based on you being a semi-professional. Lower-income individuals working their butts off to feed their families don’t make nearly as much as immigrants do for simply existing, but they sure have to pay for it.

…In August 2024, many Austrians were shocked to learn that a Syrian family with seven children in Vienna received more than €4,600 in welfare payments per month – in addition to other family subsidies and benefits.

The same family would only receive €2,300 per month in other parts of Austria.

Because of this perceived generosity with taxpayer money, Vienna has become a magnet for welfare recipients.

Recent numbers from the 2024 Integration Report of the Federal Chancellery showed that 74 per cent of all Syrian nationals living in Vienna were on welfare, as were 72 per cent of Somalis and 54 per cent of Afghans.

The Austrian elections held last September also had a ‘right-wing’ party emerge triumphant, the Freedom Party. But as we’ve seen elsewhere in Europe, they were unable to successfully form a government when finally afforded the opportunity.

Austrian far-right leader Herbert Kickl’s efforts to form a coalition government with a conservative party collapsed in mutual recriminations on Wednesday, more than four months after his party won a national election.

Austria’s president last month gave Kickl a mandate to try to form a new government — the first to have been headed by the far right since World War II — after other parties’ efforts to put together a governing alliance without his Freedom Party failed.

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The new triumvirate coalition now excludes the winning Freedom Party – again, a familiar refrain – but last month actually made some moves to the right on immigration, unlike the Germans to its south under Friedrich Merz.

It’s a start.

The new Austrian government said Wednesday that family reunion procedures for migrants will be immediately halted because the country is no longer able to absorb newcomers adequately.

The measure is temporary and intended to ensure that those migrants who are already in the country can be better integrated, Chancellor Christian Stocker from the conservative Austrian People’s Party said.

“Austria’s capacities are limited, and that is why we have decided to prevent further overloading,” Stocker said.

The new measure means that migrants with so-called protected status — meaning they cannot be deported — are no longer allowed to bring family members still living in their home countries to Austria.

Austrians are also going to have to do more if they intend to play in Empress Ursula’s new and very expensive European defense build-up. Not only do they have a challenge ahead of them, paying the tab for the tanks and guns with all the welfare recipients they’ve coddled, they are going to have a whale of a time convincing the few Austrian lads – as all of Europe is rapidly aging out – that are left they need to be soldiers, as well.

No one wants to do that.

Especially when ethnic Austrians are projected to shortly be in the minority.

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…Even if that should help stem the aging problem, it is unlikely to lead to functioning societies. If 21-year-old Franz is not willing to fight for Germany in a war, do you really think that 21-year-old Ahmed will? According to a 2006 study by the Vienna Institute for Demography, by 2051 the majority of Austrians under the age of 15 will be Muslim. We are moving towards a situation where one-half of the population is native retirees who believe that young migrants will come with nothing in mind but working for their pensions. In order to have a social solidarity, people must share a common past and the belief that they are part of a larger history that creates obligations for past, present and future generations. These conditions are simply not met by most migrants from non-Western parts of the world, and they have no interest in financing Europe’s debt or fight its wars. 

It is even worse, since given current migration trends, those Germans with a German passport would die in the trenches, while the migrants would stay back, often in the welfare systems that are now being drained by contributors who are called to the front.

Muhammed or Mahmoud has no interest in paying the freight for Austria to fight, less mind actually fighting for the country they’ve landed in. 

There’s none of that ‘adopted country’ gratitude oozing from pores as there used to be, like when refugees hit American shores and were grateful they did so.

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They’re in a pickle in Europe, and I know we’re close to the same thing.

We missed it by a whisker in November. 

But they haven’t given up, and we shouldn’t fool ourselves that we’ve won.

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