We have the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Everything after that is what WE make of it. Period.
What about my right to quality of life issues in my old age (67)?
I think I’m entitled to a couple of 20 year olds to keep my old bones warm at night and my outlook bright.
If there is a “right” to goods and services, Hillary, why aren’t there any Wal-Marts in NYC? Riddle me that one, huh?
As conditions diminish for health care workers, fewer highly qualified people will elect to enter a government controlled workforce. Longer hours and deployments to fringe areas will compel ever more people to avoid health care employment. Until one day, nobody want to become a doctor.
And then, what of the peoples' right to health care? Will the government have to start selecting youngsters with the capacity to learn medicine and track them into lifetime servitude as government physicians? I don't see how thay can avoid it.
Sorry, FDR made slaves of your folks and all who came after way back in the 1930s.
Hillary’s job will be to put locks on our shackles.
One of the worst problems is government housing is it the
breading ground for every vice!
The few people who are truely needy, their needs would be met
by local charity and not by federal or state government.
Bring back the local poor house for the truely needy.
We have a right to an affordable higher education. College professors should accept lower wages and be transferred to where most of their students are.
Or, we have a right to affordable news. “Journalists” should submit to a fixed pay scale.
Better, we have a right to affordable government. Politician salaries should be limited to the median income of their constituents, with no additional income streams allowed for the duration of their term in office.
Lets put all of the above three “rights” into place before we start monkeying around with the “right” to affordable healthcare.
"Freedom is not empowerment. Empowerment is what the Serbs have in Bosnia. Anybody can grab a gun and be empowered. It's not entitlement. An entitlement is what people on welfare get, and how free are they? It's not an endlessly expanding list of rights - the "right" to education, the "right" to health care, the "right" to food and housing. That's not freedom, that's dependency. Those aren't rights, those are the rations of slavery - hay and a barn for human cattle." -- P.J. O'Rourke
George Will has deemed them “freshly minted rights” (of course he means they aren’t rights at all).
However, I plan on marching on Washington in order to exercise my rights and receive a Mercedes, plasma TV and new house.
"No person or entity has as a right to any material good or service produced by another and as such, the government and all people and entities acting on behalf of the government are prohibited from compelling one to give up his assets, goods or services for the benefit of another."
We are already there. As things stand now, anyone who shows up in a hospital emergency department, MUST receive care, regardless of ability to pay. As a condition of my appointment to the medical staff, I am required to provide coverage to the ED. I am compelled to provide my services, regardless of whether I ever get paid. For the “privilege” of having done so, I am fully exposed to any lawsuit they can convince a lawyer to pursue.
As a society, we may decide it is unAmerican to let someone die in the ED just because they can’t pay. But, if we as a society are going to impose that mandate, let that same society pick up the tab.
There is NO right to food, shelter or medical care that you can’t pay for. The only “right” any of us have, that others are bound to pay for, is to legal representation in a court of law.
Nationalize the Laywers!
“But how is this legal plunder to be identified? Quite simply. See if the law takes from some persons what belongs to them, and gives it to other persons to whom it does not belong. See if the law benefits one citizen at the expense of another by doing what the citizen himself cannot do without committing a crime.”
“Then abolish this law without delay, for it is not only an evil itself, but also it is a fertile source for further evils because it invites reprisals. If such a law — which may be an isolated case — is not abolished immediately, it will spread, multiply, and develop into a system.”
“The person who profits from this law will complain bitterly, defending his acquired rights. He will claim that the state is obligated to protect and encourage his particular industry; that this procedure enriches the state because the protected industry is thus able to spend more and to pay higher wages to the poor workingmen.”
“Do not listen to this sophistry by vested interests. The acceptance of these arguments will build legal plunder into a whole system. In fact, this has already occurred. The present-day delusion is an attempt to enrich everyone at the expense of everyone else; to make plunder universal under the pretense of organizing it.”
from “How To Identify Legal Plunder”...(much more) here...
http://bastiat.org/en/the_law.html#SECTION_G1434
Thanks to FReeper raygun for the link.