0 Oprah is helping us build the lives we want -- thanks O

"I want us all to fulfill our greatest potential. To find our calling and summon the courage to live it," Oprah Winfrey says.  Wow..  McCrabby couldn't agree more.  How're we doing so far?   Well, McCrabby gets $0  and Oprah made $65,924 in the 90 minutes it took to research and write this..

According to US Magazine, Oprah Winfrey has an income of approximately $385 million

O & M in a quiet moment on the veranda

dollars a year. If McCrabby were to break that down, and McCrabby likes to break down numbers, that equates to $1.05 million per day OR $44,000 per hour OR $732 per minute.  And, that's not accounting for coffee breaks.   It also is based on 24/7 (no eight hour days for Oprah).  So, if Oprah sleeps for six hours, she made $263,520.   McCrabby thinks he knows who has the life they want.  He could use a nap.

$260 million of that $385 million is in salary, and the remaining is for her part time work, doing commercials, promoting books, doing voice-over work on other shows, publishing magazines, owning networks, and helping others to build the life they want.  Hmmmm, if McCrabby could find some part time work, maybe he could pay for his health care....  

In an eight-city tour, where tickets can cost up to $999 for the event (including a picture with

Oprah, or a picture with a picture of Oprah -- they weren't that specific),  Oprah is not singing, juggling, doing magic, or playing an instrument.  She's showing how to get the life you want.   

For McCrabby's money, he'd take the $999.  It seems pretty apparent who's got the life they want.  

McCrabby doesn't mean to diminish Oprah's accomplishments.  She has obviously created a phenomenon that leads her to great wealth and great notoriety.  And, she does donate to charitable causes that help people who might otherwise not be helped.  

But, might it not be a little presumptuous for her to "teach" others how to live the life you want?  After all, she makes $999 in less than 90 seconds, while much of her audience may have to sell a kidney to be able to afford her "event."  NOTE:  not all her tickets are $999

Oprah tried to take back the gift she gave McCrabby

Remember, even on Oprah's television show, it's the sponsors that often "give away" the gifts she so famously provides to her audiences.  While she makes the big splash about giving away expensive presents, it's the sponsors who donate their products for the publicity it generates.  Who's got the life they want??

McCrabby supposes that most people attending Oprah's tour want the life SHE's got.  McCrabby has a multi-level marketing plan he thinks might be perfect for those people...

McCrabby has to admit that he's never been a particularly huge fan of Oprah, and he doesn't quite get the huge adulation she receives from her audiences.  She seems a little self-serving, and does a lot of her charity work in front of a camera (they did a whole television special on the girls' school she started in Africa, which was nice, but it seemed less special after 90 minutes of promoting how special it was).  Bill Gates donates B...illions annually for health and humanitarian issues and hardly receives a thank you publicly.  That's BILLIONS, folks.

Really??  Wouldn't miss it

So, McCrabby guesses he'll go to Oprah's "The Life You Want" extravaganza.  After all, maybe she'll tell how to fix Congress, or war in the Middle East.  Maybe she can stop terrorism, or lower McCrabby's exorbitant Obama-care bill (or let him keep the plan he had).  

Look for McCrabby in the audience.  Maybe he'll even get a photo-op with the main lady...