Jonathan Swift Satire Analysis

It is a melancholy object to those, who walk through this great town, or travel in the country, when they see the streets, the roads and cabin doors crowded with beggars of the female sex, followed by three, four, or six children, all in rags, and importuning every passenger for an alms. These mothers instead of being able to work for their honest livelihood, are forced to employ all their time in strolling to beg sustenance for their helpless infants who, as they grow up, either turn into thieves for want of work, or leave their dear native country for the Pretender in Spain, or sell themselves to the Barbadoes. That is Jonathan Swift’s view of the ruins of 1729, however despite the passing of almost 3 centuries, this is still a picture that we see in modern streets, an image we try to stop by legal means such as the Mendicancy Law of 1978 and the Presidential Decree No. 603 but tried in vain to do so. As such in light of this increasingly alerting problem, I will push for an action that benefits not only the children, but as well as the entirety of our community. It is a well-known fact that religion is one of the major problems we have in the current day, in fact it constitutes for about 30% of our modern problems, in light of this problem I would propose a solution which no one would have the right to refuse to unless they provide a proper solution that would work on the practical scale. Hundreds of thousands of our soldiers of differing race, country, and goal, die