[Tolsti2]

Nobody is using lawn services now btw. 2 years ago I’d agree with you, and you could might even get by ok doing it. Not now.

[GOPsterinMA]

I can't remember the last time I saw a ‘neighborhood kid(s)’ cutting grass or shoveling snow.

Back in HS/college the money from the couple of lawns I cut came in very handy, that's for sure.

[GonzoGOP]

Nobody is using lawn services now btw. 2 years ago I’d agree with you, and you could might even get by ok doing it. Not now.

That goes to my point about getting small business going. If the cost of extending benefits is tax increases then it is counter productive. If we get people back to work they will start buying luxury services like lawn care again. We have to break the Increased Benefits => Taxes => Business Destruction => Unemployment cycle. We are faced with a series of choices that range from hard (limiting benefits to reduce the tax burden) to suicidal (high tax European style nanny state). The cycle sucks the life out of the economy and it will continue to suck worse until we break out of it. So we should choose the option that breaks the cycle soonest, rather than the one that holds off the Armageddon of suckiness the longest, but renders its eventual arrival inevitable.

[itssme]

Rush Limbaugh suggesed to a lawn service owner, who lost a lot of business, to pitch the banks who own foreclosed homes. He suggested that the owner pitch the banks, at very reasonable rates, to maintain the landscaping of these homes at a service level that suits them. The more banks he can contract with, the more he gains.

[kcvl]

Nobody is using lawn services now btw. 2 years ago I’d agree with you, and you could might even get by ok doing it. Not now.

Around here they certainly do. They also have housekeepers who clean at least a couple of days a week. And these aren't rich people just people with fairly good jobs.

Banks, law offices, court houses, drug stores, doctor's offices, etc. also pay very well to get their offices cleaned. And it's hard to find people who do a good job (or even show up to vacuum and take out the trash) even when the pay is good.

Detailing cars is another money maker around here and most of that is in CASH, so are home repairs that only take a day or two to finish (NO UNION).

Suck up to independently wealthy people ("evil rich") who have inherited granny's money. They will pay for ANYTHING.