Despite the best intentions of both major political parties, the looming deadline of North Carolina's broken budget will remain North Carolina's insolvable concern unless Republicans and Democrats can agree on the definition of a single term. Cooperation.
Until our state's legislators agree that the only way to place North Carolina's budget on sure footing is to learn how to walk together, there is little doubt that the path this budget process is on will lead to an empty well.
Unfortunately, as illustrated in today's General Assembly, there seems to be little interest in across-the-aisle cooperation. With both sides assured that theirs is the correct, and only, plan to shore-up a budget that has come to near-default in less than one decade, there is little room left for mediation.
But it is this mind-set, and not the budget, that is not sustainable.
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