Stephen F. Lynch famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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
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 #Partners
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

#Income #Benefits #Reform
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
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
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 #Wages
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
I always thought a very strong anti-drug policy was a good thing for my union members.
-- Stephen F. Lynch

#Strong #Drug #Unions
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
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
Hey, I'm a former union president myself and also an attorney that represented a lot of unions.
-- Stephen F. Lynch

#President #Unions #Hey
Free trade should not mean free labor.
-- Stephen F. Lynch

#Mean #Should #Trade
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
Likewise, free trade does not, as evidenced in CAFTA, mean fair trade.
-- Stephen F. Lynch

#Mean #Doe #Trade

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