“I guess we lowly citizens should simply allow King Ken and Queen Elaine to dictate what we pay, to whom and how much without worrying our silly little heads. Shut up and pay. I wonder if these two will join the famous dictators of the past such as Hitler, Ayatollah and Saddam Hussein right where dictators belong. For the time being Sedalians ... never fear, your decisions will all be made by the king and queen of our fair city,” wrote lildreamer on The Sedalia Democrat website.
Now I like hyperbole just as much, if not more than anyone else, and while I got a good hearty laugh out of that particular quote, it just doesn’t seem reasonable.
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