Modest Proposal

Hunger is in America, the world’s wealthiest nation. 14.5 percent of U.S. households—nearly 49 million Americans, including 15.9 million children— struggle every day to put food on the table. In the United States, hunger is not caused by a scarcity of food, but rather the continued prevalence of poverty. We as a nation must come together to confront hunger and poverty in the United States. Therefore let no man object to my plan by proposing to provide Good Jobs for many Americans, the U.S. labor market no longer works as a reliable way to build a stable career and support their families, Work Support Programs that help to expand access to affordable health care and child care, and strengthen tax credits such as the Earned Income Tax Credit and Child Tax Credit, which help working families, and Child Nutrition Programs which are critical to ending childhood hunger. When children receive the nutrition they need, they are more likely to move out of poverty as adults. (Bread for the World)

The dense streets of our country make strolling outside on a beautiful and perfect day or evening exhausting. The streets, roads, and sewers are perfusing with grimy looking, foul smelling, still breathing and talking corpses. Panhandling for food, water, clothes, and better shelter all while fighting each other to get near you to ask. You look forward and ignore them, being disgusted by the sight of such a lower person than yourself. There are only three types of people: the ones who are on the bottom, Corpses, the ones who are at the top, Wealthy, and the ones who collect the Corpses, Donors.

I think it is agreed by all parties that this prodigious number of Corpses in the streets, or on the roads, or at every opening, and frequently at bars, i...

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...ome true and sincere attempt to put them into practice. But, as to myself, having been tired and disappointed for many years with offering vain, idle, visionary thoughts, and at length utterly despairing of success, I fortunately fell upon this proposal, which, as it is very new, so it has something solid and real, of no expense and little trouble, full in our own power, and whereby we can incur no danger in disobliging the U.S.

I profess, in the sincerity of my heart, that I have not the least personal interest in endeavoring to promote this necessary work, having no other motive than the public good of my country, by advancing our trade, providing for the homeless, relieving the poor, and giving some pleasure to the rich. I am of the Wealthy class and I own my own farm with all of the necessities to live out the rest of my life.

Works Cited

Bread for the World