A Modest Proposal

A Modest Proposal is basically a man proposing to kill all the poor children in a city and sell them for meat. He is saying that it would benefit them because there would be less beggars and it would do something with the poor people. At first I thought that he was actually being very serious about the situation. But then he started talking about how they treated the people who were poor and beggars. I think that he was just trying to state very sarcastically that they treated the people poorly like animals or live stock.