Dave wrote:
On Thu, 17 Jan 2008 14:26:36 -0500, Martin Baxter said:

Better late than never Dave. Always interesting to hear the latest
version of Dickens's satirical "reduce the surplus population." - No one
admits it of course, but it's still applicable to some of the true
believer right-wingers.
Sure that wasn't Swift, "A Solution to the Irish Problem", or something
like that?

I believe Swift's solution was to eat the children. But Jim was alluding to
one of Scrooge's throw-away lines in A Christmas Carol.


Ahh.. the penny drops, I'd forgotten the Christmas Carol line.


Cheers
Marty