Every night on the streets of Ireland, I am afraid to sleep because my greatest fear is that when I wake my children will no longer be by my side. I have never had the privilege of being sure of their safety. Every mother should have the right to know her children are safe.
             I recently completed reading "A Modest Proposal" and I felt compelled to respond. I am one of the poor breeders living on the streets of Ireland, of which you discussed in "A Modest Proposal". I appreciate your humorous approach in pointing out the atrocities of our society. There are two points you made that I would like to have another look at with you. The first position being the actuality that the wealthy, of whom which control our government, contribute to my inability to rise above my current state. The second concept that I would like to discuss with you is on your assumption about reasons some Irish women resort to abortion.
             Similarly as you led readers to believe, I also feel that my former landlord contributed to my being in my present situation. The way our government is constructed allows the rich to take advantage of poor people such as myself. The wealthy continue to accumulate more wealth, all the while the poor continue to fall deeper into poverty. Furthermore, poverty in Ireland is therefore hereditary. My mother nor I have never known any other reality other than a desolate one.
             As you so eloquently addressed in your satire when you said, "I grant this food will be somewhat dear and therefore very proper for landlords, who, as they have already devoured most of the parents, seem to have the best title to the children". It is true that landowners and government officials are greedy and only out for themselves. I do feel as though I have been chewed up and spit out by our society.
             My former landlord continued to increase my rent every time I gave birth to another child. He contended that he wa...