Swift wrote “A Modest Proposal” to suggest essentially that farming babies was the way to battle famine. While this is more or less a joke, the article addressed that beggars with children that they raise to be beggars are a burden on society. The real question is how do we fix this problem. Swift wants any opposing arguments to have a solution as to, “how they will be able to find food and raiment for a hundred thousand useless mouths and backs.” This statement brings up the main point I found in this paper, why are the poor having children they can't afford? This is definitely a problem we struggle with in this day and age. There is so many people who can't take care of themselves, yet they still have children. This just ends
