| Rath said: Not all entitlements are human rights, but that does not mean no entitlements are human rights. |
If you consider the rights of man as laid out by the US founding fathers to be accurate (and I realize not everyone does, but I do), then any entitlement program that requires the effort of one person to be taken so it can be provide to another, is a violation of those rights.
Our founding fathers considered our time and energy to be ours. That's what liberty is.
Now there are rights as a condition of law. For example, you have as right to drive after the age of 16, provided you prove your capable. That's an entitlement, and thus a right, and does not violate anyones human rights.
Calling things like healthcare a right, means that right violates the liberty of the individual, unless you applied healthcare in a manner where only your efforts were consumed for the purpose of your care. If you take from a small group to provide for a large group, you have violated the liberty of that small group.
For me, Human Rights as laid out by our constitution trump any rights of law.
