Stephen F. Lynch Quotes

Likewise, Free Trade Does Not, As Evidenced In Cafta, Mean Fair Trade.

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 Hurts All Parties.

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 Certainly Not What The Mexican Workers Signed Up For.

Free Trade Should Not Mean Free Labor.

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.

Average Real Wages In Mexican Manufacturing Are Lower Than They Were 10 Years Ago, If You Can Believe That.

I Always Thought A Very Strong Anti-drug Policy Was A Good Thing For My Union Members.

Hey, I'm A Former Union President Myself And Also An Attorney That Represented A Lot Of Unions.

Since Nafta Was Put In Place, Mexico Has Lost 1.9 Million Jobs And Most Mexicans' Real Wages Have Fallen.

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 The Purchasing Nations.

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 To Alleviate The Adverse Consequences Of Trade Liberalization On The Poor.

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 Like They Are Talking About The Weather, Or A Natural Disaster Like An Earthquake.