Chavez Rails at Teenage Breast Implants Gift Fad

[otohara]

The President Urged His Countrymen to Give Up Excessive Consumerism

President Hugo Chavez railed against a new trend in beauty-conscious Venezuela: giving girls breast implants for their 15th birthday.

"Now some people think, 'My daughter's turning 15, let's give her breast enlargements.' That's horrible. It's the ultimate degeneration," Chavez said late Sunday on his weekly TV show that lasted a record eight hours.

Venezuela is well known for its beauty queens, who have regularly won world crowns, and many women have plastic surgery in the oil-rich country where there is widespread spending on consumer items that would be considered luxuries elsewhere.

But Chavez, the anti-U.S., self-styled revolutionary who came to office in 1999, is seeking to change those attitudes to create what he calls the "new man" to build a socialist society in this South American nation. http://abcnews.go.com/International/story?id=3642435&page=1

[rfranklin]

1. Yeah, you don't see Bush focusing on the breast problem...

too bad he's "hands off," otherwise we might be able to impeach.

[Richardo]

2. For once, I agree with Chavez on something.

Wonders never cease.

[Deja Q]

3. Won't that wreck their economy?

:hide:

[otohara]

5. Not If They Wait

and do it when she's 16, 18 or 21, like here.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

4. FUCK CHAVEZ!

What a god-damn tyrant he is!

[Ezlivin]

6. Does he want their economy to go tits up?

Maybe I'm not keeping abreast of things, but are their cups running over?

[sicksicksick_N_tired]

9. oh golly

:rofl:

not fair

[NYVet]

10. That was SO wrong in SO many ways...

But I am laughing, so what does that say about me?

[frylock]

11. statements like that make him look like a boob

[sicksicksick_N_tired]

7. *shrug* If I had a 15 yr old daughter, I wouldn't offer breast implants.

:shrug: Hell, even if she had a mature 40-something bustline, I'd think of a million gifts I'd give her over breast implants.

I'm not sure the point of posting this matter unless it's just to engage in flame-baiting which, there seems to be a shit load of that all ready going on.

[izzie]

8. Well it is a silly thing for any women to do. Or girl.

My God what could they think of them self as if big brest mean one darn thing. It is crazy. They need to spend the money on getting them an education. In this world that will be more important believe me.