Media Spin and the Hidden Poverty in America

#46,writes <<< Wake up and smell the coffee. >>>

It is impossible to smell anything amidst the reprehensible, irrelevant stench of your post that tries to reduce the whole world to an India vs Pakistan contest. With over 90% real poverty in India, I do not think you can claim any credibility pointing your (stinking) comments at anyone

Masadi sahib

(It is impossible to smell anything amidst the reprehensible, irrelevant stench of your post that tries to reduce the whole world to an India vs Pakistan contest. With over 90% real poverty in India, I do not think you can claim any credibility pointing your (stinking) comments at anyone )

Ranjit wasn`t the first one to start throwing stones at a more expensive better made glasshouse.

Regards

masadi,

``I used to go to school during the day (full time), work at the college cafetria from 4 to 8pm (7 days a week) and then work at another of your fantastic food establishments from 11pm to 7am and then be back at school at 11am.``

......... i am proud of you !........ but then what happened ?........ you, of all people should know how easy it is to make a decent living in this country - the 11 million illegal mexicans and the thousands of people who line up at american embassies every day testify to that, don`t they ?

......... having said that, i am beginning to see your problem too....... most indian students (and some pakis) figure out in a week or two that working in fine food establishments which have a drive through window is not the quickest path to the american dream - we leave that to mexicans and nicaraguans who don`t speak english .......... now, if you had worked in a restaurant with valet parking you could have made a couple of hundred a night .......... even better, you could have got the federal government to subsidize your education with research grants like most of us did ......... but i take that back - we don`t want the government squandering our money on useless research on poverty and ufo`s...........

masadi: i see we have smelly indians like ranjit (the man who was gloating over the death of he earthquake victims) jumping in to fling mud at pakis. Now that is real poverty, imho. Now this board is really going to start stinking!!

hamidm #50 ``most indian students (and some pakis)``

the hell with the indians. why are you so deferential to these ba!stards when they come here with only one agenda on their mind - to fling dirt at ``pakis``??

#51 by tahmed32

[i see we have smelly indians like ranjit (the man who was gloating over the death of he earthquake victims) jumping in to fling mud at pakis.]

For a change, please let go of the insults and educate us as to why you think Ranjit is wrong. You`ve become so predictable that it is amusing some times to see you resort to insults when you have no answers to the uncomfortable questions Indians ask of Pakis.

Re: # 52

Ooh - closet mullah32 is angry... indian b@stadrs are flinging dirt at him, and he don`t like that one bit.....

who would have thought there would be soup kitchens in uk

3,000 Indian doctors left jobless in EU-friendly UK

Vijay Dutt

London, February 6, 2006



















Indian doctors, who come to Britain in search of cushy jobs and a better life have lately found that life is not that rosy after all. Out of nearly 4,000 Asian doctors who came here recently, 3,000 from India and 800 from Pakistan, a majority is said to be struggling.
Quite a few have run out of money and with no employment prospects in sight, they are considering going back home.
A newspaper had published a photograph of unemployed overseas doctors queuing up outside the Sri Mahalakshmi temple in East London for free meals. Many are working, anonymously, in restaurants while the lucky few are working as assistants in pathology laboratories.
Dr Shiv Pandey, a senior doctor from Liverpool and an executive member of the British Medical Council, had campaigned for these unemployed doctors and even went to India to acquaint New Delhi of their plight. He said there was no hope for the new doctors to get jobs despite the fact that Britain has a shortage of medical practitioners. A few seniors also complain of racism.
At the last count, there were over 6,000 overseas doctors who had come to Britain in the past five years in response to calls by the National Health Service (NHS) for foreign medical staff. They hoped to find jobs after passing the Professional and Linguistic Assessment Board Test (PLAB) - a mandatory requirement for all immigrant doctors. But most of them are still unemployed.
The government earns a lot of money from the PLAB test, also held in India, and so holds them regularly. Most doctors come to Britain hoping for the kind of success their predecessors achieved in the 60s and 70s. Until recently, around 30 per cent of GPs in the NHS were Asian, most of them from India.
But as Dr Sisir Ray, who came here in 1966 and is a consultant at a Harley Street clinic, put it, the situation has changed. Preference is now given to doctors from the European Union and since its enlargement, a large number of them continue to come here. They do not have to appear for PLAB either.
Most senior consultants agreed with Dr Ray that young Indian doctors must be made aware of reality. Not long ago, the Health Secretary had said that those who pass the PLAB were free to come to Britain but there were no job guarantees.

Re: # 52


sorry tahmed, the truth slipped out :) ....... you must admit that pakis (punjabis in particular) are a little slow on the uptake ! ...... but on the brighter side - we have managed to capture the taxi market in all major cities in this country ........ and that is nothing to scoff at - a ny city medallion went for more than 350K last year and i know a chaudary from gujarat who owns eight of them ! .......... between the paki punjabis (14%) and the sardar jis (11%) we drive 25% of the cabs in ny city - unfortunately the russian mafia controls the bulk of the medallions (that`s what my cabbie friends tell me) ......

...... the problem i have with masadi`s nonsense is that regardless of all the numbers he bandies around i don`t know a single - not one - person who is ``poor`` ......... i am not denying that there are no poor folks in the mountains of appalachia and the jungles of the inner cities, but we all know why - these folks don`t have the incentive to go out there and work for a decent living as long as the welfare check, the ssi check and the food stamps keep them in beer and chips .......... if 11 million illegal immigrants can find work, why can`t they ?............... the answer to the ``poverty`` problem is to put the welfare mamas to work instead of taking the ``surplus``, as masadi suggests, and buying them twinkies and paying for their nails .......... and if bubba from tennesse wants to get his teeth fixed, he should stop tinkering with his truck and cousin beth and come down from the hills to pick cotton or pluck a banjo and the grand ole opry ...............

Bismailla Irahman Iraheem

Masadi Sahib

Asalam Lakum.

Have you ever thought about going back to your own rich country where women are not allowed basic freedoms such as driving. May be your services are needed more in your own homeland of the Quran and Sunnah of Prophet Mohammad Salalawalalawasalam (PBUH). Trust me, no one in the west pays attention to some unknown molvi with a diploma from some unknown paper mill with no clue about anything. Brother Ranjeet is right, you have no clue.

What makes you so sure that the stats that you are quoting are not manipulated by the US Elite? Where did you say that you go to school?

Best wishes for spring,

Khuda Hafiz and Jazak allah

Re: # 55

aslam mian,


.... send those poor docs to america - if they can pass the usmle they should have no trouble finding a job........ if not, they can always drive a cab in ny or chicago and make a darn good living ..........

#57 Kulharee, <<< #57 by Kulharee on April 3, 2006 7:11am PT
Bismailla Irahman Iraheem

Masadi Sahib

Asalam Lakum >>>

walikum salam, now since you have nothing to contribute related to the post, may I suggest you and Mr. hamidm (whose new posts are filled with the old bs platitudes that circumvent all reason and reality regarding the poor in the US) move run along and busy yourselves with your latte drinking or whatever the hell else it is you do to keep yourselves ignorantly numb about this society.

Re: # 59

Masadi. I asked you a simple question.. if you don`t want to answer it, you can say so, but dont pretend to be a joker that you are. It is so easy to see thru your hollowness. You have no substance.

#58 by hamidm2 on April 3, 2006 7:19am PT
i would have thought they would know the opportunities in us &canada, i wonder why they don`t go there, in uk now white european come first.

Re: # 59

masadi,

.... be honest now ......do you know any ``poor`` person who is not a single mother, a drug addict, mentally deranged or simply lazy ? ........

Re: # 61

aslam,

.... actually most of them - the good ones- do end up here after a few years of bumming for the nhs in uk ......