Business in Chicago, needless to say, has not been doing very well lately. Empty store fronts are appearing everywhere; and the city, along with Cook County, have not helped at all. In fact, they have made the matter worse. We have a 10.25% sales tax rate, which I may add, just recently lost the vote in the Cook County Board to have it rolled it back.
You can now expect to spend anywhere from $30.00 to $40.00 just to park your car for two to three hours in any of the parking lots. The city of Chicago does not like people who have cars, however, that's a subject of a later blog of mine.
Chicago is still the only city in America that has its own tollway system. Every major expressway coming in to and out of the city has a toll booth eagerly waiting to take your spare change in order to enter and leave. What is so absurd about this is that they have the audacity to call the the ILLINOIS Tollway System, when there is no place else in the state of Illinois that has the toll booths. Believe me, it is the CHICAGO TOLLWAY SYSTEM.
Then there are all of the other fees and taxes that are levied on the businesses of Chicago. The restaurants now must pay a tax on all the gas they use to cook the food, and even charge a tax to customers who use Styrofoam containers to take their food home. We better add the fact of the high unemployment rate due to this present bad economic downturn.
With all these taxes and fees, our beloved public officials have made it very unappealing and expensive for those people who live outside of the city, to use whatever now small amount of disposable income they may have left, to come into the city and have a good time on a Friday and Saturday evening. They are all deciding to look for establishments in their own towns to frequent. Even the citizens of downtown Chicago themselves are coming out to the suburbs for their entertainment, because it is less expensive than going to the establishment right outside of their own doors.
So, what may you ask does this have to do with our Queen, Oprah the First? Our Queen, her Highness, has commanded that the largest entity of cash flow for the city, that being Michigan Avenue and the "Magnificent Mile" to be closed for two or three days so that she may give to the world, her special anniversary show, to be videotaped live on Michigan Avenue.
Never mind that she will be causing a huge disruption of business and traffic. No, this is Oprah, and this is what she wants. And to make sure she gets her way, she has commanded her servant, Richard the Second, (Mayor Richard Daley), to inform the masses that this ... is for their own good. Even telling the peasants that Her Highness, Oprah the First, is a Chicago icon, that she deserves this, and that this will ... are you ready for this ... CREATE JOBS. (I want to see just one).
Oprah Winfrey is living proof that liberals ... are everything that they stand against.
It is totally unacceptable to liberals that any CEO of a corporation flies in a private jet to a meeting, but it is perfectly acceptable for Oprah.
It is totally unacceptable for a corporate executive to make the six figure salaries that they do, but perfectly acceptable for Oprah.
That any expensive material object that a business executive has in his or her possession is always scrutinized, but it is always acceptable for Oprah to openly flaunt hers.
Wealthy people are criticized by Barack Hussein Obama for going to Las Vegas, but Oprah going to Monaco is just so wonderful in the eyes of her subjects.
Oprah Winfrey is no longer a talk show hostesses, (who, if you remember, got her start doing the same thing as Jerry Springer). No, Oprah Winfrey is the high priestess of her own religious cult, where she is the idol that is worshiped.
It is our Queen, Oprah the First, who has given us Barack Hussein Obama, and she is the person who has originally anointed him as "THE ONE". She brings Barack and Michelle on her show many times, cooing and drooling over the both of them. And then tells the world that she will never interview Sarah Palin because ... she does not want to use her show for any political reasons. And her subjects accept this, and defend it.
Oprah should be imprisoned just for giving the world Dr. Phil. A man who is not even a psychologist. He was stripped of his license in Texas, for some inappropriate behaviour with a patient.
I believe though that GOD in His Almighty mercy will bestow upon us all, during the taping of this show, one of the greatest rain storms ever over this two to three day period just to keep it from happening. And then a great realization shall come to our Her Majesty. She will return to her ivory tower on Michigan Avenue and deal with the reality that GOD has given her a message. And that is:
THERE IS ONLY ENOUGH ROOM IN THIS ENTIRE UNIVERSE FOR THE ONE TRUE GOD.