A Modest Proposal

  I would call this story "An Immoral Proposal." I found the subject to be very creepy.
In any case, I have thought of a few social problems we have in the United States that could also be the subject of "A Modest Proposal."

   One example is the health care crisis in the United States.  In the kind of reasoning Mr. Swift uses, the very sick and the very old could be subject to euthanasia.  Only the young, strong, and healthy people would remain.  This would save the country a huge amount of money on health care.

   Another example would be the homeless in the United States.  Suppose Mr. Swift used the homeless as an example in place of children.  The same principles would apply.

   A third example of a social problem in the United States that could be the subject of "A Modest Proposal" could be prison inmates that have life sentences.