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"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."
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"Darwin investigated the numerous facts obtained by naturalists in living nature and analysed them through the prism of practical experience."

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


"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."


"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."


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


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


"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."


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


"I am told that the clinical definition of insanity is the tenancy to do the same thing over and over again and expect different results."
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