Realtors know that good negotiating skills are required for success and most work hard to hone those skills. Compromise, in which both sides give up something important and neither is satisfied with the result, isn't the ideal. Instead, an agreement should be sought that's satisfactory to all and meets each side's most important goals. (If Republicans' and Democrats' highest goals for the country are mutually exclusive, however, we have a bigger problem than the debt ceiling.)
To reach a satisfactory agreement, smart Realtors know it's necessary to listen to each other and try to understand the other side's viewpoint . This isn't happening in Washington; each time a proposal is made, instead of intelligently discussing its merits, the other side starts throwing insults at the party who made the proposal. This is immature and unproductive behavior that won't solve our country's problems.
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