Rights are those things granted by God; among which Americans count life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
It sounds very nice to say that people have a right to food, water, clothing, shelter, medical care. However, because all of those things cost money, this implies that people have a right to other people’s money and labor. Christ taught charity but not a Robin Hood type of theft.
You are so correct. If it’s a right, then government cannot take it away (which we all know they will when your life becomes “not worth living” — there is a German expression for that that came out of Nazi Germany). I cannot remember it just now.