Good News: Detroit automobile sales are up!

As a son of retired General Motors worker, this always strikes me as very good news: DETROIT- General Motors Co. announced today that it sold 224,314 vehicles in the United States in February, up 7 percent compared with a year ago. Retail sales and fleet sales were both up 7 percent. The fleet mix was 25 …

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The Price of Fascism

Please note: When I write this here, I am not doing it to bad mouth anyone at all. Least of all the UAW or the General Motors or Chrysler workers. It simply is not their fault that the companies that they work for were horribly mismanaged for many years and are now not doing so …

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Heh: GM’s electric car sales plummet, GM blames “inventory issues”

I hate writing stuff like this because my Dad is a GM retiree. However, the truth is the truth and the truth is, General Motors is lying out of their rather large derrieres.  The Story via The Detroit News — which is, by the way, a Conservative/Libertarian biased Newspaper: Sales of Chevrolet’s Volt fell in …

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GM’s jobs news is nothing more than a ruse

Great and wonderful news, right? Wrong.  Just another bogus headline from a company that is about ready for bankruptcy.  This story comes via MLive.com. General Motors Co. and the state are expected to announce today that GM will create 2,000 new jobs in Michigan, beginning with up to 1,500 at a new information technology innovation center …

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I’m Back!

Please note: When reading this, try to imagine someone speaking in a slight southern accent; like I do. It will help to make it sound funnier.  — As I told you all, I went out with my Dad today. I went with him to his retirees meeting at the UAW Local that he is a …

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Detroit’s Autorama is in town

Now here is something that makes me get a bit nostalgic: Now that Detroit has had a month to bask in the future of what the automotive industry has to offer, the Motor City will now take a look at its past. The 60th annual Autorama begins noon Friday and runs through Sunday at Cobo …

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