Sunday, December 8, 2019





" GM's bonuses and profit sharing in the current contract included a $5,000 ratification bonus, four quality bonuses of $250 each ($1,000), three lump sum $1,000 performance bonuses ($3,000) and profit sharing of $30,250 ($7,000 in 2012, $6,750 in 2013, $7,500 in 2014 and $7,000 plus a $2,000 special performance payout in 2015 "



" General Motors earned $6.3 billion in the fourth quarter, more than five times the year-earlier's $1.1 billion, and its UAW workers will receive profit sharing of up to $11,000 based on the company's 2016 pretax profit in North America of $11 billion.

The profit-sharing payout is the highest for any of the Detroit-area automakers "

GREG GARDNER | DETROIT FREE PRESS

" General Motors Co. said Tuesday its net income last year fell less than 3 percent to $9.43 billion due to a one-time gain it had in 2015. But with record profits in North America and strength in China, the company posted several yearly records including pre-tax adjusted earnings of $12.5 billion. "


MELISSA BURDEN  |  THE DETROIT NEWS







us military is the largest institutional purchaser of petroleum in the world when the u s is at war

saudi arabia's gdp tripled from 2000-2012

15 of 19 9/11 hijackers were saudis

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/GASREGA


https://tradingeconomics.com/saudi-arabia/gdp :




new giovanna wheels for the volt 

obama + dem controlled congress created the american recovery and reinvestment act of 2009 which only three republican senators voted for - 2 of them from maine - and it came down to 1 vote in senate to override a republican fillibuster 


" As expected, the Republican attempt to block a vote on the Collins-Nelson Amendment to the stimulus package has failed, with Republicans Susan Collins, Olympia Snowe and Arlen Specter joining the 58-member Democratic caucus to invoke cloture. "


APR 15 2018 :

" It’s tax time again. Or tax credit time, if you’ve purchased a plug-in and qualify.

Does the plug-in electric car you purchased in 2017 qualify for the full $7,500 U.S. federal tax credit?

If it’s listed below, it does. If not, then it still qualifies for a reduced amount, which you can find here on our Compare EVs page. "



obama ranked 12 th greatest prez

he raised the dow from 8000 to 24,000 ( the recovery act / stimulus is still in effect ) while dropping unemployment from 9.8% to 3.9% with recovery.gov

20 million more people had health insurance under the aca

#liberalsgrow ☺️

From Keith Richard's "Life":

"Once again it was Bill Carter who came to my rescue...First he had assured the Canadian court when he posted my bond that I had a medical problem and that I needed to be cured of my heroin addiction. He made the same case to his  contacts in the White House, where Jimmy Carter was president, using all the muscle he could work, talking to one counsel there who was Carter's drug policy man, fortunately charged, at the time, with finding solutions more effective than punishment...Miraculously, his White House contacts instructed Immigration to grant me a visa, and he got permission from the Canadian court for me to fly to the United States. We were allowed to rent a house in Philadelphia, where Meg Patterson would treat me every day for three weeks...And I've always been very grateful to the US Government for allowing me to come to America to get help to come off the stuff."

(Pages 394,395 +396 of "Life" by Keith Richards)                                                               
Jane Rose told KR "Keith, today is tomorrow" and paraphrases him saying: "tomorrow I'll clean up" (quoting her) on page 409 of paperback version of "Life" By Keith Richards, copyright 2010 by Mindless Records, LLC; Back Bay Books / Little, Brown and Company; Hatchette Book Group, 237 Park Avenue, New York, NY 10017 (www.hatchettebookgroup.com) Back Bay Books is an Imprint of Little, Brown and Company.


 - People Magazine says Dr. Patterson's machine helped Eric Clapton, KR, Pete Townsend and Boy George beat heroin.


 -Dr. Patterson died on July 25, 2002.




 - USA TODAY quotes Iraq Survey Group that Saddam destroyed WMDs in 1991 + 1992.


 UNICEF Iraq demographics.




- Iraq's anti corruption board reveals nearly 5 million Iraqi children were orphans in 2007.


 - Sharia law definition of orphan: Underage child with both parents dead.


- Wikipedia on "Who Killed the Electric Car?" (third paragraph under: "Topics Addressed").








 - 1680 Chevy volts sold in May, 2012.