(Trinidad Guardian) The breast-enhancement business is busting out all over T&T and some people are “living it up Gangnam style,” says Independent Senator Rolph Balgobin. Speaking in yesterday’s 2013 budget debate in the Senate, Balgobin pointed to booming breast-enhancement businesses as a sign of what he deemed the culture of entitlement which abounds in some quarters while a 16 per cent poverty level exists simultaneously.
Balgobin added: “They are living it up in a very viable way. You have Porsches, people are buying breasts and BMWs. There’s a very big breast implant business in T&T.?You don’t have to go to Margarita. I ran into people who tell me they have a big issue to debate: What size they going with. Fifty thousand dollars! You know how much poor people you could feed with that?”
He said someone had called him to get a number for an official to get a special number plate for their new Porsche. Balgobin added: “You not just grateful you have a Porsche??You have to have a special number plate too? Gangnam style!? Everybody living it up.
“There are parts of society that are living it up in ways that are painful to me and several of these people don’t even pay their taxes but you can easily find people who have no toilet or running water or lights in T&T. “I live in South and I can show you people bathing from a bucket at the side of the road or from a barrel of water. The sense of entitlement in T&T?is killing us,”?Balgobin said.
Saying the budget came at a time of rising concerns about the economy, tensions in society and challenges for democracy, Balgobin said too much of Government’s money was tied up in “unproductive things and unproductive people.” He said some demands on Government were unfortunate.
