Stephen F. Lynch Quotes

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.

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• Job
• Nations
• Purchasing

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.

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• Results
• Insanity
• Clinical

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.

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• Policy
• Trade
• Businesses

I always thought a very strong anti-drug policy was a good thing for my union members.

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• Policy
• Members
• Anti-Drug

Free trade should not mean free labor.

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• Free
• Labor
• Free Trade

Trade reform has also been linked to increased income disparity as skilled workers have captured more benefits from globalization than their unskilled counterparts.

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• Benefits
• Globalization
• Disparity

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 the Mexican workers.

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• Economy
• Impact
• Workers

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.

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• Job
• Talking
• Loss

Hey, I'm a former union president myself and also an attorney that represented a lot of unions.

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• Unions
• Former
• Represented

Likewise, free trade does not, as evidenced in CAFTA, mean fair trade.

Stephen F. Lynch

• Trade
• Fair
• Free Trade