France to create 'legal right' to housing

(Villepin said the law would "make France one of the most advanced countries in terms of social rights". Housing would become the third legally enforceable right in France, along with access to education and healthcare.)

I'm sure the right to food is not far behind. If I had the right to housing, education, healthcare, and food, with no responsibility for getting any of it, what incentive would I ever have to work? Ever?

Please be advised that words and phrases such as "responsibility", "incentive" and "have to work" are regarded as Hate Speech in France. I provide this advisory as a public service in the event that you should ever accidentally find yourself in France as a result of an Islamofascist airline hijacking.

Values of "You don't work, You don't eat" are being crapped on by France, with predictable results right around the corner. France is not far from the day when the unproductive outnumber the productive. I wonder what business will remain in France.

The State-sponsored ones will do fine until the French economy completely collapses. The timeframe on this event has just accelerated dramatically as a result of this "free housing" initiative. Be sure to keep a good stock of popcorn on hand as it should be good theater, from afar at least.

The French government announced plans to create a "legal right" to housing in response to a snowballing campaign that has seen a tent city for the homeless spring up in the heart of Paris.

Governments cannot "create" rights. As our founders rightly proclaimed, rights come from God, and they are the same for everyone. Rights cannot change, or be added.

They can only be recognized or not recognized. and the government can only enforce them or infringe upon them. But it can't make new ones.

Clearly, if anything is NOT a God-given right in the sense that our founders understood that term, it is housing.

Only if God magically creates a house for each of us when we're born, could a right to housing be said to exist. Then you could argue that taking that house away would infringe upon a right to housing.

But in the real world, government cannot give us rights that God has seen fit to deny us. All the legislation in the world will not create housing for everyone in the long run. It will only destroy the housing market and create chaos. But it will never deliver a house to everybody, and the law will prove unsustainable in the face of economic reality.

Sadly, I believe that the Socialist State has replaced God in France some time ago.

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