The Jason Stapleton Program

Yeah it’s a real thing. It’s actually a bit of humor to start the show off today. It turns out countries around the world, in an effort to boost birth rates, have designed a variety of programs to get your headboards knocking. The latest is Spain who’s death rate exceeded it’s birthrate last year for the first time. In an effort to boost their birthrates Spain has resorted to hiring an “Sex Czar”. It’s a typical government response to a problem (hire more people, create a new program) but if I was ever going to get behind a new government initiative this seems like the type of thing I’d support. :-)***In more serious news I want to read an article for you from the Wall Street Journal that talks about the correlation between Japan’s easy money policy in the 1990’s and ours today. I think many of you will be shocked to see how similar Japan’s lost decade is to our own stagnant economy. It’s a fantastic show today. Thanks to all of you for sharing and promoting the show!JasonSupport the show.

Yeah it’s a real thing. It’s actually a bit of humor to start the show off today. It turns out countries around the world, in an effort to boost birth rates, have designed a variety of programs to get your headboards knocking.

The latest is Spain who’s death rate exceeded it’s birthrate last year for the first time. In an effort to boost their birthrates Spain has resorted to hiring an “Sex Czar”.

It’s a typical government response to a problem (hire more people, create a new program) but if I was ever going to get behind a new government initiative this seems like the type of thing I’d support. :-)

***
In more serious news I want to read an article for you from the Wall Street Journal that talks about the correlation between Japan’s easy money policy in the 1990’s and ours today. I think many of you will be shocked to see how similar Japan’s lost decade is to our own stagnant economy.

It’s a fantastic show today. Thanks to all of you for sharing and promoting the show!

Jason

549: Delta's Profit Motive Beats Government Good Intentions Do you ever wonder why government inefficiencies never seem to get fixed? The TSA has, from its inception, been plagued with problems. From long lines and employee, malfeasance to cost overruns. Everyone hates the TSA. Even if you're sympathetic to the workers, you can't help but curse under your breath every time you're forced to stand in a 30-minute line before being stripped and scanned. Why don't these problems get solved? It has to do with incentives. What incentive does the TSA have to improve their processes and provide a better experience? The answer is zero. The TSA gets its funding from the government. They have no direct responsibility to you. If you're unhappy with your experience, you can't pick a different screening provider the next time. Nor can you withhold your money by choosing to travel by car or train. The TSA is going to get paid no matter what. The only incentive the TSA has is to make sure they always follow the make sure the line keeps moving and the laptops come out of the bags. Contrast this with the private sector who have a profit motive with everything they do. Yes, the GREEDY corporation only concerned with its own bottom line. Delta, one such company, just did what the TSA has been unable to do since its formation. It solved the wait times at the Atlanta airport. By investing its own money it signal handily cut wait times by up to 90%. How could this be? Simple, they wanted to make more money, and they were tired of spending millions to rebook unhappy passengers due to missed flights and TSA inefficiencies. The desire for profit pushes companies to be as efficient and consumer friendly as possible. A free market, consisting of competing companies, helps to drive down costs while creating a better quality product. This is something you will never see in a government run monopoly. We can learn a lot from Delta and the TSA. These lessons apply to a host of problems America now faces from education to Obamacare. JasonSupport the show.

549: Delta's Profit Motive Beats Government Good Intentions

Do you ever wonder why government inefficiencies never seem to get fixed? The TSA has, from its inception, been plagued with problems. From long lines and employee, malfeasance to cost overruns. Everyone hates the TSA. Even if you're sympathetic to the workers, you can't help but curse under your breath every time you're forced to stand in a 30-minute line before being stripped and scanned.

Why don't these problems get solved? It has to do with incentives. What incentive does the TSA have to improve their processes and provide a better experience? The answer is zero. The TSA gets its funding from the government. They have no direct responsibility to you. If you're unhappy with your experience, you can't pick a different screening provider the next time. Nor can you withhold your money by choosing to travel by car or train. The TSA is going to get paid no matter what.

The only incentive the TSA has is to make sure they always follow the make sure the line keeps moving and the laptops come out of the bags.

Contrast this with the private sector who have a profit motive with everything they do. Yes, the GREEDY corporation only concerned with its own bottom line. Delta, one such company, just did what the TSA has been unable to do since its formation. It solved the wait times at the Atlanta airport.

By investing its own money it signal handily cut wait times by up to 90%. How could this be? Simple, they wanted to make more money, and they were tired of spending millions to rebook unhappy passengers due to missed flights and TSA inefficiencies.

The desire for profit pushes companies to be as efficient and consumer friendly as possible. A free market, consisting of competing companies, helps to drive down costs while creating a better quality product. This is something you will never see in a government run monopoly.

We can learn a lot from Delta and the TSA. These lessons apply to a host of problems America now faces from education to Obamacare.

Jason

Lots of discussion about policing today. Not because that's the way I intended it, it's just the way the show broke out. We start with the shooting in LA where (allegedly) an off-duty LA Police Officer put hands on a kid who was trespassing on his property. I struggle ensued, and the officer pulled his gun. The gun went off, an apparent accident and the crowd that had gathered dissipated. So was this an issue of a heavy handed on power hungry cop or is it a justified use of force? Today I'll tell you what I think, and I'm not sure you're going to like the answer. From there we'll talk about a new law that will allow police in Tucson to arrest peaceful protesters to prevent potential violence. If I can think of any reason to use violence, it would be in defense of one of my God given rights. (Say the freedom of speech). It's a great show today with lots of back and forth between Darren and I. I think you're going to enjoy it. JasonSupport the show.

Lots of discussion about policing today. Not because that's the way I intended it, it's just the way the show broke out.

We start with the shooting in LA where (allegedly) an off-duty LA Police Officer put hands on a kid who was trespassing on his property. I struggle ensued, and the officer pulled his gun. The gun went off, an apparent accident and the crowd that had gathered dissipated.

So was this an issue of a heavy handed on power hungry cop or is it a justified use of force? Today I'll tell you what I think, and I'm not sure you're going to like the answer.

From there we'll talk about a new law that will allow police in Tucson to arrest peaceful protesters to prevent potential violence. If I can think of any reason to use violence, it would be in defense of one of my God given rights. (Say the freedom of speech).

It's a great show today with lots of back and forth between Darren and I. I think you're going to enjoy it.

Jason

Whether we're talking about second amendment rights or the right to keep what we earn, the natural rights provided by "our creator" as well as those protected by the Constitution are under constant assault. Today we're going to look at several examples of the ways government lies to us, and why we must be ever vigilant when given, we hear these silver tongued foxes promise us the moon in exchange for our liberty. I have come to believe the greatest threat to our liberty is not a foreign government or invading army. It's not even a terrorist attack. The greatest threat to our liberty comes from our own government, and it's constant intrusion into every aspect of our lives.Support the show.

Whether we're talking about second amendment rights or the right to keep what we earn, the natural rights provided by "our creator" as well as those protected by the Constitution are under constant assault.

Today we're going to look at several examples of the ways government lies to us, and why we must be ever vigilant when given, we hear these silver tongued foxes promise us the moon in exchange for our liberty.

I have come to believe the greatest threat to our liberty is not a foreign government or invading army. It's not even a terrorist attack. The greatest threat to our liberty comes from our own government, and it's constant intrusion into every aspect of our lives.

It never quite works out the government thinks it will. They THINK, if they just raise taxes, they can bring in more money. Need more money for schools? Just raise Taxes.Have a shortfall in your budget? Raise Taxes.Have a new infrastructure plan and need money to pay for it? Raise taxes. Now they don't always raise taxes. Sometimes they put you into debt by selling bonds, but no matter how you slice it, you end up taking it on the chin. It still amazes me that, although they have tried to tax us into prosperity time and time again, it never works out the way they expected.Take Philadelphia for example. They recently passed a new Soda Tax. A 51% tax on all sugary drinks. They thought they'd receive a tax windfall. Instead, they saw sales decline by 30-50%, mass layoffs and the threat of running a shortfall in their education budget. They say madness is doing the same thing over and over again, expecting a different response. That being true, we are governed by mad men.***Also on the show, Michigan State is banning white boards on dorm doors to prevent the chance "mean words" might be written to students. It's not just Michigan State that's going off the deep end. More than 200 colleges and universities around the country now have what are effective "bias response teams" to police speech on campus. Students are encouraged to turn in fellow students, teachers, even political disagreements to these response teams for review. It's a mad, mad world. Don't be part of it. Get your sanity back. Listen to the JSP Now!JasonSupport the show.

It never quite works out the government thinks it will. They THINK, if they just raise taxes, they can bring in more money.

Need more money for schools? Just raise Taxes.

Have a shortfall in your budget? Raise Taxes.

Have a new infrastructure plan and need money to pay for it? Raise taxes.

Now they don't always raise taxes. Sometimes they put you into debt by selling bonds, but no matter how you slice it, you end up taking it on the chin.

It still amazes me that, although they have tried to tax us into prosperity time and time again, it never works out the way they expected.

Take Philadelphia for example. They recently passed a new Soda Tax. A 51% tax on all sugary drinks. They thought they'd receive a tax windfall. Instead, they saw sales decline by 30-50%, mass layoffs and the threat of running a shortfall in their education budget.

They say madness is doing the same thing over and over again, expecting a different response. That being true, we are governed by mad men.

***
Also on the show, Michigan State is banning white boards on dorm doors to prevent the chance "mean words" might be written to students.

It's not just Michigan State that's going off the deep end. More than 200 colleges and universities around the country now have what are effective "bias response teams" to police speech on campus. Students are encouraged to turn in fellow students, teachers, even political disagreements to these response teams for review.

It's a mad, mad world. Don't be part of it. Get your sanity back. Listen to the JSP Now!

Jason