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Old 01-26-2007, 11:31 PM
L. Cooper L. Cooper is offline
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The original "Modest Proposal" was a satirical piece by Johathan Swift that suggested the poor could easily fix their starvation problem by eating the babies they seemed to produce so easily. He was not insulting the poor; he was insulting a government of the time that was bent on allowing people to continue to die when it had the means to prevent most of the deaths.

So is this "Modest Proposal".
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