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Interesting. I could tell that you had a liberal edication, but you seemed to have some education in business as well. I thought a Pub Admin degree might explain it. A business undergraduate would have used the term "economic engine", so I didn't think you had a business degree. An MBA is something different, right? So you got into industrial relations through the psych degree? I did it from the other end and was exposed to psych through my HR courses.

For what it's worth, George Washington had a philosphy similar to yours. He was very much an idealist, but he would lecture the ideolouges of the founding fathers that all the ideals in the world didn't matter if the real world considerations wouldn't support the ideal. So he frequently did things that weren't ideologically pure, much to the chagrin of folks like Mr. Adams, on the grounds that starving to death in purity wasn't a very good ideal. The book "His Excellency" has a nice chapter on it.