A Not so Modest Proposal

            Yesterday's slogan "fight the system" has been replaced by today's "take advantage of the system." Many a supermarket employee can vouch that an alarming problem is the growth of individuals who take advantage of our nation's welfare system. Today the ability to breed has become a form of employment. However, these employees do not receive the customary currency for their jobs. The government employs these people and their payment is access to beer, cigarettes, and anything else other than food at the local grocer. A welfare program should be used to help the economically disadvantaged not raise one's social status. It's a shame for humanity and our nation when an individual can carry a cellular phone in one hand and a government check in the other.
             The Puritan work ethic has now become unnecessary. With the average household on welfare being a family of eight, the poor's easiest profession is similar to what is known as "the world's first profession". The morals of our great nation have been reduced to those of animals. During our happier days of the Baby Boom, children were born out of marriage, not lust or necessity.
             Sadly, those happier days are a part of the past, and our population is rapidly growing. With an average of 20,000 women becoming pregnant daily, our well bred children are forced to be raised next to twice as many children of loveless, fatherless, and poverty ridden homes. At this rate of population growth, The United States will have twice as many people in China in a matter of five years, with nearly 60% being on welfare, and living in poverty.
             A close friend has helped me to solve this great enigma. She is a highly skilled and trained veterinarian who is greatly knowledgeable and has a widespread practice. Due to her years of training, she has learned that the only way to control a population of a species is to surgicall...

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