Stephen F. Lynch Quotes

• 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.

  Stephen F. Lynch

  Insanity, Different, Definitions

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

  Stephen F. Lynch

  Reform, Income, Benefits

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• 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.

  Stephen F. Lynch

  Jobs, Loss, Talking

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• 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.

  Stephen F. Lynch

  Agreement, America, Income

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• 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.

  Stephen F. Lynch

  Jobs, Six, Kind

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• Since NAFTA was put in place, Mexico has lost 1.9 million jobs and most Mexicans' real wages have fallen.

  Stephen F. Lynch

  Jobs, Real, Mexico

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

  Stephen F. Lynch

  President, Hey, Unions

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

  Stephen F. Lynch

  Strong, Drug, Unions

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• Average real wages in Mexican manufacturing are lower than they were 10 years ago, if you can believe that.

  Stephen F. Lynch

  Real, Believe, Average

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• 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

  Average, Goal, Typical

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• Free trade should not mean free labor.

  Stephen F. Lynch

  Mean, Should, Trade

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• 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.

  Stephen F. Lynch

  Mexican, Democracy, Mexico

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• 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.

  Stephen F. Lynch

  Hurt, Party, Flaws

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

  Stephen F. Lynch

  Mean, Doe, Trade

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