Kennedy who?
Who made them poor and in need of help in the first place? (hint: not me, or anyone besides themselves). The onus for care-taking lies with the individual, not everyone else.
The real problem as I see it is: how can anyone defend what’s passed as liberalism for the past forty years? Liberalism has been a disaster for this country. Some sharp conservative should be penning a book in response to Tanenhaus’s absurd pile of crapoleum.