All Stephen F. Lynch Quotes
- Free trade should not mean free labor. Free
- Hey, I'm a former union president myself and also an attorney that represented a lot of unions. Attorney
- Average real wages in Mexican manufacturing are lower than they were 10 years ago, if you can believe that. Ago
- Since NAFTA was put in place, Mexico has lost 1.9 million jobs and most Mexicans' real wages have fallen. Fallen
- I always thought a very strong anti-drug policy was a good thing for my union members. Always Thought
- 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 in… Biggest
- 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… American
- Proponents of the Central America Free Trade Agreement have conveniently ignored this fundamental fact: the effect of trade on incomes in Central America and how… Adverse
- 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 loss… Been
- Trade reform has also been linked to increased income disparity as skilled workers have captured more benefits from globalization than their unskilled counterparts. Been
- Instead of trade policy that is beneficial to American businesses and workers as well as our trade partners, we have a flawed trade policy that… All
- Likewise, free trade does not, as evidenced in CAFTA, mean fair trade. Cafta
- I am told that the clinical definition of insanity is the tendency to do the same thing over and over again and expect different results. Clinical
- Amnesty International continues to report that extra judicial tortures and murders continue. This is not democracy that we are exporting to Mexico, and this is… Amnesty
- Now, given the experience that we have had thus far, with our subsequent trade agreements with NAFTA and others, you would think that with our… Agreements
- You do not export democracy through the Defense Department or the Defense Secretary. You do it through trade agreements, through the Department of Commerce and… Across
- As for the expected boon to the Mexican economy, we have seen none of these gains, and instead we have seen NAFTA's detrimental impact on… Boon
- I am told that the clinical definition of insanity is the tenancy to do the same thing over and over again and expect different results. Clinical