3 Brit Pakistanis from B'ham arrested for terror plot

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Re: 3 Brit Pakistanis from B’ham arrested for terror plot

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Pakistanis in the US have done relatively well.. I recall there was a thread on how Candian Pakistanis had higher rates of unemployment and even poverty then compared to American Pakistanis.

A key difference might be that the US doesnt give handouts. The state provides for only the VERY Rich and VERY VERY poor. So most Pakistanis do not fit into either category and hence do not qualify. This I think forces a degree of self reliance.

When my wife was in the hospital, I was not working at the time, and she could not, so we were stuck with a huge bill. We did not qualify for Medicaid as our income was still to high to qualify. So being stuck with such a huge bill was unfair on some level, but it kept us from being complacent and thankfully were able to pay it off eventually.

Partly true that Pakistanis in America have done better than ones in UK. We have both extremes here. While there is a very active extremist lobby here, UK has a lot of Pakistanis representing them in the parliament in all three parties including a Pakistani who until recently was the co -chairwoman of the conservative party and member of the cabinet. Under Blair there were at least two ministers of Pakistani origin and even now in the shadow cabinet the justice minster portfolio is held by a Pakistani. There are a number of Pakistanis in house of Lords as well. I dont see any Pakistan in American cabinet yet. Are there any in the congress?

Generalizations are never good.