Michael Shoen
AFM: Has the past months changed your view of running for election?
MS: The past months have not changed my view of running as I ran two years ago and more or less know what to expect.
AFM: After meeting and interacting with local residents, what have you discovered is their No. 1 concern?
MS: Jobs.
AFM: How do you think you can achieve local residents’ desired change?
MS: I can help Arizona residents achieve sustainable jobs by explaining that the only path to sustainable new wealth is new manufacturing and entrepreneurship, and that militarism, manufacturing weapons and financial gimmicks are not sustainable, but actually decrease national wealth in the long run.
AFM: What has been your biggest challenge to date?
MS: Biggest challenge to date is that there are so few forums to discuss this taboo subject, and that most people do not want to confront unpleasantries, such as the national security state, warfare state and military-industrial-governmental complex which are sucking the life out of our economy and misdirecting our country to militarism rather than to economic creativity. The controlled mainstream media is full of propaganda which obscures the truth.
AFM: Who has been you biggest supporter throughout your campaign?
MS: Thomas Costanzo.
AFM: If you could change anything about your campaigning, what would it have been?
MS: I would smile more.
AFM: What will you be doing on Election Day?
MS: I don't plan that far ahead.
AFM: Where do you plan on celebrating should you win the election?
MS: I don't expect to win the election—a third party candidate has never won a Congressional seat in Arizona and no Libertarian has ever polled more than five percent for a Congressional seat. Nevertheless, my exposition of issues can force the two main party candidates to answer important questions they hope to avoid, like the 70 percent of the federal discretionary budget and 40 percent of total federal budget wasted on the warfare state, the national security state, the military-industrial-governmental complex, our over 730 military bases in over 130 foreign countries, our 16 duplitious intelligence organizations, our admittedly failed and lied to 9/11 Commission investigation, our intentionally failed wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan and the whole construct of synthetic terror. I am a truth teller. What is going to win the election is something over $2.6 million (mostly from sources outside Arizona) for either of the two main-party candidates combined with polling and focus groups to tell them what to say. I am the only candidate who understands and who will face the paramount economic issue of today—the rise of the warfare state and the fall of the manufacturing state.
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