{"id":10199,"date":"2009-10-31T16:43:28","date_gmt":"2009-10-31T23:43:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=10199"},"modified":"2009-10-31T16:48:36","modified_gmt":"2009-10-31T23:48:36","slug":"business-as-politics-no-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/10199\/business-as-politics-no-way\/","title":{"rendered":"Business as Politics? No way."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t know where I am on the political spectrum.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s particularly important.\u00a0 But I know that if I took <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=10182\">Robert Worthington&#8217;s<\/a> approach to my business, I would be out of a job.\u00a0 People come to me with problems.\u00a0 I try to help them resolve their problems within the set of rules.\u00a0 They pay me.\u00a0 End of story.<\/p>\n<p>What I think about those rules when I lay my head down at night is quite distinct from how I earn a living.<\/p>\n<p>Whether you&#8217;re a lawyer or a real estate agent, a lender or a widget maker, you add value to the world by solving other people&#8217;s problems: keeping them out of jail, finding them a home, helping them finance a purchase, or selling them some widgets.<\/p>\n<p>How you conduct your business &#8211; how you treat people and honor your commitments &#8211; matters.<\/p>\n<p>What you think about whether they take a tax credit, or borrowed from 2003-2006 at Fed subsidized mortgage rates, or have benefited for decades from the mortgage interest rate deduction does not matter.<\/p>\n<p>And if you&#8217;re so concerned about an $8,000 tax credit that you&#8217;d turn away customers, I think, quite frankly, your priorities are confused.\u00a0 There are some deep injustices in the world, and in this country.\u00a0 An $8,000 giveaway, however stupid or smart a policy that may be, is not one of them.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/pixy.gif?x-id=43b9d0f3-36f4-8e58-b1af-abd93710548e\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t know where I am on the political spectrum.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s particularly important.\u00a0 But I know that if I took Robert Worthington&#8217;s approach to my business, I would be out of a job.\u00a0 People come to me with problems.\u00a0 I try to help them resolve their problems within the set of rules.\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-10199","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-general","8":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10199"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10201,"href":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10199\/revisions\/10201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}