Summary: A Modest Proposal To End World Hunger

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“A Modest Proposal for bettering financial stability to prevent families in the world to starve and to end World Hunger.”
It is a melancholy scene to see, all those families walking through the town, when they see the streets full of people buying necessary and unnecessary objects, followed by three, four, or six children, all in rags asking their parents to get them essential items for school, clothing or at least new pairs of shoes. These mothers instead of buying them the essential items, they are forced to pay rent, to buy food they could afford, to pay electricity or even to pay off debts.
I think it is agreed by all parties, that this prodigious number of families in the arms, or on the backs, or at the heel of financial stability. Whoever could find out a fair and easy method to help these families to rise financially and be able to help end World Hunger and maintain it in the nation.
I have seen a significant amount of young children roaming around with their parents and asking them if they could have at least one good meal a month or a year at the most, or school supplies but the parents end up saying they need it for something else and that it’s for their own good. Sometimes children would like a most delicious nourishment and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or
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These children are seldom the fruits of marriage, a circumstance not much regarded by the people, therefore humble human that would like to offer at least once a year a good meal to them, or giving them new school supplies, or new clothing or new pairs of shoes any of these things that the children can get would be more than enough. A child will make the most of what he can obtain, no matter what it is he will treasure it especially in

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