Assignment 1

1. The basic irony expressed by this letter is that this couple wanted to tell the government that they wanted to do what there neighbors were doing, they wanted the government to pay them money to not raise pigs. This couple had no intuitions to ever raise pigs, they just wanted to be paid by the government to not raise pigs.

2. The government is trying to regulate the amount of pigs that are in the United States.

3. The critic of the government use irony, by saying that they want to start a business of not raising pigs.

4. This story conveys a low social value because people would want to not raise pigs and get paid for it. When they never raised pigs, while the government paid people who raised pigs for a living to stop raising them.