Stephen F. Lynch Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“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.”

“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 experience of job loss that we have had there that when you find yourself in a hole that you might stop digging.”

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

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

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

“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.”

“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.”