Looking into the reason for having to eat the babies was that people were too poor to afford to buy food. If you look around the nation and see the number of people on food stamps it would look as if we're in the same situation. People are unemployed and can't afford to buy food for themselves and their children. So what if you were to just sell the children to someone else and make some money to buy dinner. They can be sold for much cheaper than cattle so there is much profit to be made in the endeavor. The problem I have with Swift here though is that he claims to be too old to have children to sell. What makes him better than the others besides the fact that he has money. If we as America sold our children to be eaten as food it would put money in our pockets which would allow us to spend money and boost the economy out of the deep recession that we are in. Another thing to look at is there will never be a shortage of babies to be made. Everywhere you look there is someone pregnant. Sell the child make the money sounds like a good deal to me. Besides doesn't Neal Ledbetter say we're here to multiply? He doesn't say what we have to do with all the children. Maybe we should look into what Swift says here about selling babies for food. It would help the U.S. and after all according to Dr. Foley, "Someone has to take care of this country."
P.S. I commented on Katie's
After reading this post, you and Swift almost had me convinced of this brilliant idea! Just kidding... I love a good satire and Modest Proposal is almost too good. It pokes fun at the Apollonian reasoning that some people solely rely on, leaving out the fact that he's seriously considering eating a baby! Side note: the "logical" reasoning he provides for ending poverty reminds me of the first chapter of Superfreakonomics, for those of you that might have read it.
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