Archive for Harold B. Jones Jr.
Harold B. Jones, Jr. is a professor at Dalton State College in Georgia and the author of Personal Character and National Destiny.
“Find Out What the People Want”: The Russell Conwell Story
“There is not a poor person in the United States who was not made poor by his own shortcomings. . . .” Those words come, interestingly enough, from what is almost certainly the most successful charitable fundraising speech ever delivered. It was given over 6,000 times, provided almost 1,700 young people with the opportunity to [...]
26Oct2011 | Harold B. Jones Jr. | 0 comments | ContinuedWalter Lippmann: The Impossibilities of Social Planning
At the beginning of the twentieth century, observed historian A. J. P. Taylor, a law-abiding Englishman’s conscious relations with the government were limited to his contacts with the post office and the policeman. He could live where he liked and as he liked, and if he wanted to travel abroad he could do so without [...]
21Sep2011 | Harold B. Jones Jr. | 2 comments | ContinuedImmigration Control, Circa AD 175
Last January the Wall Street Journal reported on the aftermath of federal agents’ success in rounding up Hiics on charges of immigration violation. The Georgia company where these“illegals” had been employed sought to obtain replacements by paying higher wages and offering free transportation. It was soon involved in a series of legal challenges that a [...]
1Dec2007 | Harold B. Jones Jr. | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Immorality of Redistribution
It has been proposed that government assistance programs like prescription drugs should be provided only to those who earn less than a certain income. The fate of such a policy can be predicted from what has happened to Medicaid. Intended to provide medical care for the poor, Medicaid has become “inheritance protection for the children [...]
1Mar2006 | Harold B. Jones Jr. | 1 comment | ContinuedRome and America: The Ideology of Decline
Writing in 1835, Alexis de Tocqueville attributed the United States’ commercial success to American merchants’ willingness to face uncertainty and danger. Europeans, he said, wait for good weather and return to port if the ship is damaged; the American “departs while the tempest still roars . . . while on the go, he repairs his [...]
1May2004 | Harold B. Jones Jr. | 0 comments | ContinuedHomeland Security Circa AD 285
Alexis de Tocqueville said that nothing is so threatening to individual liberty as extended war. Wars add to the relative power of the central government, and this change in the balance of power is accompanied by the decline of personal freedom. “A long war almost always places nations in this sad alternative: that their defeat [...]
1Apr2003 | Harold B. Jones Jr. | 3 comments | ContinuedThe Redistribution of Blame
According to John Kenneth Galbraith, the economy will at any given moment contain a certain inventory of undiscovered fraud. This inventory (he called it the “bezzle”) rises and falls with the business cycle. When an economic shakeout brings specific cases before the public eye, politicians cry for “reform!” They are unfortunately less interested in corporate [...]
1Oct2002 | and Harold B. Jones Jr. | 0 comments | ContinuedWhat Happened to China?
Asked to pick from among the world’s nations the one with the best prospects for years ahead, an early fifteenth-century futurist would have bet on China. All the indicators pointed to it as destined to outpace every other civilization on the planet. Among the things the futurist might have noted was Chinese technology. In 1400 [...]
1Aug2002 | Harold B. Jones Jr. | 2 comments | ContinuedThe Bully that Acts Like a Hero
Harold Jones teaches at Mercer University’s Eugene W. Stetson School of Business and Economics in Macon, Georgia. In 1995 President Clinton established what he called “Operation Restore Trust,” a Health and Human Services initiative aimed at wiping out fraud and abuse in the health-care industry. According to the administration, only terrorism surpassed health-care fraud as [...]
1Mar1999 | Harold B. Jones Jr. | 0 comments | Continued-
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