Lehigh Valley Conservative

Rich or poor, educated or uneducated, no matter what we were in life, we are all equal in death.  Awhile on earth, many of us strive to become financially successful, some try to become spiritually better persons and others don’t care one way or the other. Politicians attempt to better lives for all, so they say. Most use wealth taken from others to help the poor, seldom their own money. The last 50 years have told me that poverty has increased and the non-working classes have grown faster than the working class. The welfare policies and other Social policies have failed to do what they claim to do but they have effectively increased the voter base for the ones giving away the entitlements. After 50 years, we should discontinue the failed policies and try something different. That is virtually impossible now due to the dependency of those that receive the entitlements and the politicians have to know that but do nothing. Ted Kennedy was at the top of the list for pushing failed policies.

The mainstream media seems to live in a fantasy world where the only way to help people is to give more entitlements without expecting anything in return. The death of Ted Kennedy has resulted in the media contributing accolades of heroism to Ted for his service in the Senate. Several noted politicians and the president gave eulogies that sounded as though Ted was nothing less than George Washington and FDR rolled into one. He was a fighter for the poor, they said and that he wanted everyone to have health-care. Did he want everyone to have the same health-care he and the other politicians have? Did he help the poor out of his own pocket from the millions he has stashed away in off shore banks or did he take from the tax payers?

The Democrat party can do everything possible to make Ted look like a hero. They can have music from noted musicians, eulogies from well known politicians from both sides and bury him with a flag and a 21 gun salute with military honor guards but the bottom line is that Ted will have to answer to his creator, not to us. He was not Jesus multiplying the loaves and fishes for the poor. Jesus walked and lived with the poor, Ted lived like a king surrounded with bodyguards and a favorable press with cameras wanting to make him look bigger than life. He became a dynasty with the help of the media and his family name. I can’t think of a better reason for term limits then to keep people like Ted Kennedy from becoming what he became in reality, a self loving over-glorified welfare recipient, living off the fruits of the working class. Making a hero out of a man like Ted Kennedy is an injustice to the whole political system and to freedom loving Americans everywhere! Forty five soldiers died in Afghanistan this month of August alone under our new commander-in-chief, Obama and we hear little to nothing of them in the mainstream media. Every one of them were more patriotic than Ted Kennedy ever was and they are the real hero’s we should be celebrating!