If you consider that a typical Central American consumer earns only a small fraction of an average American worker's wages, it becomes clear that CAFTA's true goal is not to the increase U.S. exports. — Stephen F. Lynch Copy Share Image
I am told that the clinical definition of insanity is the tendency to do the same thing over and over again and expect different… — Stephen F. Lynch Copy Share Image
I always thought a very strong anti-drug policy was a good thing for my union members. — Stephen F. Lynch Copy Share Image
Since NAFTA was put in place, Mexico has lost 1.9 million jobs and most Mexicans' real wages have fallen. — Stephen F. Lynch Copy Share Image
Instead of trade policy that is beneficial to American businesses and workers as well as our trade partners, we have a flawed trade policy… — Stephen F. Lynch Copy Share Image
Hey, I'm a former union president myself and also an attorney that represented a lot of unions. — Stephen F. Lynch Copy Share Image
If you consider that a typical Central American consumer earns only a small fraction of an average American worker's wages, it becomes clear that… — Stephen F. Lynch Copy Share Image
Now, given the experience that we have had thus far, with our subsequent trade agreements with NAFTA and others, you would think that with… — Stephen F. Lynch Copy Share Image
Average real wages in Mexican manufacturing are lower than they were 10 years ago, if you can believe that. — Stephen F. Lynch Copy Share Image
You do not export democracy through the Defense Department or the Defense Secretary. You do it through trade agreements, through the Department of Commerce… — Stephen F. Lynch Copy Share Image
Likewise, free trade does not, as evidenced in CAFTA, mean fair trade. — Stephen F. Lynch Copy Share Image
The one thing that I have been struck with, after coming here to Congress is, how many people in Washington, D.C. talk about job… — Stephen F. Lynch Copy Share Image
Proponents of the Central America Free Trade Agreement have conveniently ignored this fundamental fact: the effect of trade on incomes in Central America and… — Stephen F. Lynch Copy Share Image
Amnesty International continues to report that extra judicial tortures and murders continue. This is not democracy that we are exporting to Mexico, and this… — Stephen F. Lynch Copy Share Image
The biggest share of U.S. exports to the six CAFTA nations is not the traditional job-creation kind. These are products that are not consumed… — Stephen F. Lynch Copy Share Image
