Universal Background Checks

Unless you live under a rock, you have been hearing a whole lot about guns, gun control, gun bans and universal background checks in the media in the past few months. There is a whole lot of controversy that goes along with all this, from the second amendment, and the belief that taking or banning guns is unconstitutional.

You can read about it here (or many other places on the web):

Universal Background Checks

What are your thoughts on universal background checks?

Blog post #3- Current Event (GM)

General Motors said Thursday it will invest $331.8 million into four powertrain plants located in Michigan, Ohio and Indiana. Bay City and Flint will receive the most attention, getting $31.7 million and $215 million respectively.  The investments will help GM build a more fuel-efficient transmission and an eight-speed transmission. The large investments will not create any new jobs, however expected to retain 1,650 jobs.

These investments are part of the $1.5 billion GM reported earlier this year it would invest in North American plants. GM has announced a total of $1.2 billion of the sum to be invested this year.

The Flint plant will be getting the bulk of the money- $215 million- to build a small Ecotec engine and upgrade for the current v-6 engine.

GM said the new engine being constructed in Flint will be part of a new family of engines that includes three-cylinder and four-cylinder engines.

The Toledo operation will receive $55.7 million to help boost capacity and production of an all new eight-speed automatic transmission in addition to the six-speed transmission already being built there.