Kennedy's funeral is being planned for the The Basilica of Our Lady of Perpetual Help.

"Kennedy's funeral is being planned for the The Basilica of Our Lady of Perpetual Help in the Mission Hill section of Boston. "

Boy, that's rich.

The man who built a career on developing government programs that never go away and don't solve the problems they are intended to help is being memorialized at a church called "Perpetual Help."

The nation's 30-year five trillion-dollar anti-poverty campaign should be evaluated primarily in terms of the extent to which it has facilitated the efforts of low-income people to achieve independence. Outcome-based analyses of the facts show that the current approach to poverty has been a dismal failure. Although welfare spending (in constant, inflation-adjusted dollars) has skyrocketed, there has been no significant reduction in America's poverty rate since the War on Poverty was launched.

Kennedy has been fighting his entire career for increasing dependency on government, whether it is expanding the welfare state, exponentially increasing illegal immigration, keeping kids trapped in failing public school (while sending his to private schools), and voting for higher taxes and against balanced budgets.

We, as a nation, are losing little with Kennedy's passing. He was just another silver-spoon Liberal pushing destructive policies. I am only saddened to not have the chance to vote against him again next year.