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These days, people are mainly seen as consumers. They have to try to accumulate as much money as possible by working long and hard, or through speculation. Anyone who fails to become rich fast, often at the expense of their fellow citizens, is considered a failure. The winners, on the other hand, are continually invited to hand over all their savings as quickly as possible to estate agents, those offering expensive holidays, and casinos. And also to schemes which will make them independent of the normal education, health care and public transport services, for these have been whittled down to a level that is now only acceptable to the losers. No wonder that the successful consumer is inundated with advertising, including from abroad. In this proposal, it is assumed that sales promotions, such as discounts, gifts and games, are conducive to welfare. In 2000, they accounted for a million jobs in nine Member States and investments to the tune of over EUR 40 billion. Although even the liberal-minded rapporteur, Mr Beysen, has to admit that such sales promotion adversely affects the ability to publish books, the fair distribution of medicines and encourages young people’s addiction to alcohol and gaming machines, he does not focus his proposal on consumer protection but on the suspension of rules and fewer obligations for those who run companies. That is why I will be voting against it."@en1
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