The 2008 Sustainability Party convention is hereby called to order! As you surely know, the Sustainability Party has the distinction of being the only party that consists entirely within a message board on a fairly obscure website.
Our platform:
1. Pay off the national debt and then have a constitutional ammendment for balanced budgets (except for times of war).
2. Strong environmental protections against pollution and protecting biodiversity.
3. Phase out of fossil fuels through strict enforcement of annual reduction targets.
4. Large gas taxes used to fund renewable-energy-powered mass transit projects.
5. No immigration except to keep population steady.
This year we're adding a new plank:
6. Localization. Political power and decision making should be as decentralized and democratized as possible with localities given the ability to decide policies.
Like in 2006, this year we will simply be endorsing other candidates. So the Sustainability party hereby endorses Roscoe Bartlett.
Does anyone have any other candidates to endorse? No? OK, the convention is hereby adjourned.