Matt, I picked up quickly that the disgust was coming from outside the "we." It also seemed to me that the benefits the speaker mentioned were exaggerated in the minds of those outsiders, who after dehumanizing the speaker would be quite comfortable with having the speaker and his sort eliminated. Like Alex, I thought of the current attitudes toward recipients of welfare of various kinds. The Nazi parallels are unmistakable. The brutal tone seemed fitting for the subject of a scathing satire, and the emphatic closure of the final rhyme also seemed appropriate.
Susan
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