A modest proposal by Jonathan Swift poor children seem to be a burden to their parents and to the country so the author offers up a solution. The proposal being that children be fattened up and to feed them to Ireland’s rich owners. This would be and easy and cheap solution to get the kids out of the streets and make them useful. The author then goes on to explain how everything would work. He presents data for this proposal. The author does this to illustrate how backwards and bad Ireland is. He says that his will make the economy and living status better. The author is never blaming the people of the state but rather the politician, the English, and the Catholic for the state and poverty of Ireland. He goes on to say that even if these children
