Steve Lynch: “I commend you for living up to your constitutional obligation to represent the people of your districts. As I said, I am…”

“I commend you for living up to your constitutional obligation to represent the people of your districts. As I said, I am new to this debate; but I am not new to this issue. In my own life prior to the privilege of my office now, I was an iron worker for 18 years; and over that 18 years I worked at the Quincy shipyard just outside of Boston. And I saw that job go away with thousands of others from that shipyard because of foreign competition and the fact that the American shipyards were paying their workers well. And companies could go offshore to exploit low-wage labor. I also worked at the General Motors plant out in Framingham, which is closed now and they are making those cars down in Mexico now. I worked in Michigan in some of the auto industry plants there as well, and I understand those plants have closed and many of them have been relocated in Mexico. I also worked in a couple of the steel mills in Indiana and in Chicago, the Inland Steel and the U.S. Steel plants which I now understand are closed.”