Political Quotes

“last week more than 150 Republicans and Democrats, Senators and House Members, business groups and labor organizations gathered on Capitol Hill to speak out against the Central American Free Trade Agreement. This group of unlikely bedfellows, if you will, spoke with one voice to deliver a unified message, no to CAFTA. CAFTA, the Central American Free Trade Agreement, expands the failed trade policies of the North American Free Trade Agreement to Central America. When I ran for Congress in 1992, the United States had a $38 billion trade deficit. Last year, a dozen years later, the United States had a $618 billion trade deficit: from $38 billion to $618 billion trade deficit. The more you look at the face of CAFTA, the better you can see who will benefit and who will pay the price if Congress passes one more trade agreement. Trade pacts like NAFTA and CAFTA enable companies to go overseas, exploit cheap labor in the developing world, and then import their products back into the United States. That is why we have a $618 billion trade deficit. The Central American Free Trade Agreement should actually be called the Central American Free Labor Agreement. Now, we know in the United States our economy over the last several decades has been a tremendous success because workers share in the wealth they create.…”