Careful fitz, you're introducing a level of complexity, nuance and seeming contradiction that may fry conservative brains operating at Pentium Processor speeds in a Core i7, or faster, world.
http://silencedmajority.blogs.com/.a/6a00d834...970c-500wi

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Although Salmon is a staunch critic of higher spending on most U.S. government programs, he was fulsome in his support of the administration's budget request for $1.5 billion for U.S. foreign operations and assistance for East Asia, for the fiscal year starting in October — an 11 percent increase over fiscal 2015.

"What you all do is keep us out of war. For less than 1 percent of the total budget, the job that you do is incredibly worth it," Salmon said, referring to the proportion of the federal budget spent on global foreign operations.

Salmon was also strongly supportive of the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a regional free-trade pact championed by Obama. It was signed in February by the U.S. and 11 Pacific rim nations, including Japan, but has yet to be ratified by Congress.

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