With all the talk of budget cuts and austerity, affecting most severely "the least of these", rather than the 1%, or even the 10%, and whether poor people are deserving or undeserving, and whether hard-working people who labor for low wages should be given help to make ends meet in the midst of their struggles, and protecting fetuses in the womb, but showing little concern for already-born babies and children, Jonathan Swift's shocking essay titled "A Modest Proposal" returns again and again to my mind. I could have gone on and on about the injustices in our society, but I believe I've made my point.I brushed aside the thought of the essay, but it kept coming back, so I decided to write about it after all. Swift's satire was quite difficult for me to reread, for it bites and bites hard. Since I can't bring myself to quote Swift's words, I leave it to you to read or not.
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