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Default Fox article on projects a DIYer should never attempt

On 2/28/2011 11:51 PM, RicodJour wrote:
http://www.foxbusiness.com/personal-...-projects-diy/

Painting is on the list? Painting?! Sheesh.

R

What do you expect from a website that promotes BUSINESS?

DIYers, be afraid, be VERY afraid. Call the "experts". It's good for
the business world.

I may not do my own roofing or tile work, but why should I pay a plumber
$100+ to come out to my house to replace the gasket, or even the entire
cartridge in my sink's washerless faucet? The article makes it sound as
though I'm foolhardy if I don't call an electrician every time I need to
change a light bulb.

If these rabidly pro-business policies impoverish potential customers,
those customers won't have the $$ to purchase the goods and services the
businesses are selling.

Henry Ford was a highly bigoted jerk as a human being, but he got at
least 1 thing right - he paid his workers well above the prevalent
factory wages because he wanted them to afford to buy his cars.