Profile: Scotty Boman

Name: Scotty Boman

Office you are Seeking: United States Senate

Current Profession: Science and Mathematics Professor at Wayne County Community College District, and Macomb Community College.

Age: 50

Where Do you Live: Detroit

Marital Status and Children: Not married. Two adopted Canine-Americans.

Questionnaire:

Why did you decide to run for this office?

I saw that our nation was in trouble, and that establishment politicians would only exacerbate our problems. If elected,  I will bring to the United States Senate a consistent, reliable voice for individual liberty, and restraint in the growth of the federal government.   As I have already demonstrated in forums hosted by a variety of groups, I have moved beyond the outmoded liberal vs. conservative paradigm, and refocused attention on the fundamental choice: liberty vs. tyranny.

What particular skill set or experience would you bring to this office?

I have the ability to only approve laws that are consistent with the United States Constitution and individual liberty. Because of my decades of active involvement in libertarian politics -- motivated entirely by advocating principles rather than the political ambition that traditionally drives major party candidates -- I am able to move the terms of the debate from policy to philosophy.  This gives governance questions vital perspective by giving priority to the right foundation from which specific policies can then be derived.  My core principles are, first, the unalienable right of every peaceful, honest person to live in freedom and, second, a strict adherence to the United States Constitution.

What, in your opinion, is the primary cause for the political polarization that we see in Washington, and what could or should be done about it?

What political polarization? There is some banter back and fourth over some wedge issues, but I suspect this is done to create the impression that the choice between the major parties is actually a significant one.

Meanwhile, both parties vote to grow the national debt, violate any traces of privacy that remain in American life, permit indefinite detentions without due process, expand our unsustainable global empire, continue confiscatory taxation, torture prisoners, restrict intra-state commerce, enshrine the Federal Reserve System, and ignore Constitutional limitations on their own power.

If the deficit is a major concern, how best should we deal with it as a nation, spending cuts, tax increases or both?

Cut spending: The deficit is not a problem to be solved, so much as a problem to avoid creating.  Unlike the national debt (which grows each year), deficits are created each year.  They are the result of Congress creating a budget that exceeds that year's revenue.  To avoid creating a deficit, I would oppose any budget that would increase the overall amount spent, if a deficit was incurred in the previous year.  I would also call for the transparent retirement of the Federal Reserve System which enables the annual creation of deficits, and the growth of a debt that costs us more in interest and payments each year.

What is the biggest issue facing Michigan that you  believe you could positively impact by holding the federal office that you are seeking?

The on-going economic depression.  This problem is not the exclusive responsibility of the current administration; it is the result of bad practices that have been in effect for decades.  Rather than changing course, recent administrations have only made matters worse by growing government and adding to the national debt.   State and local governments have been forced to tighten their belts because they don't have the privilege to run serial deficits and legislate their own debt ceiling.   Meanwhile, the Federal government has debased the currency by allowing the un-audited Federal Reserve System to create money out of thin air.  

I would support the transparent retirement of the Federal Reserve System as well as an end to job-killing regulations and taxation.

I would vote against unbalanced budgets, bankster bailouts, corporate welfare, costly and immoral interventionist military crusades, debt ceiling increases, domestic spying, and any programs that are not clearly consistent with the constitutionally enumerated powers.