It is easy to declare a new “right.”  The challenge is paying for it.  For every “right” declared by an enlightened progressive, some other party has a duty to provide it.

Consider the invented rights of modern-day leftists:

Right to food, housing, healthcare, to violate internationally recognized borders, a “living wage” (whatever that is).

Now look at the rights mentioned by the founders:

Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness, free press, free speech, free worship.  Even the Bill of Rights is not so much a list of what you are entitled to as it is a an admonishment to the Federal Government stating what it must refrain from doing to you.

Liberal “Rights” Cost Money, God-Given Ones Do Not

See the difference?  The founders did not draw up a contract that binds the government and taxpayers to give you anything.  Your government and your fellow man owe you nothing but to leave you alone to your lawful pursuits.  Your rights, given to you by God and guaranteed under the Constitution, cost me nothing.

Liberals Have it Bass-Akwards (as usual)

Liberals have stood this concept upon its head:  Government must be left alone to do whatever it pleases in pursuit of what it thinks the populace needs.  Rights don’t come from some invisible, unfair meany in the heavens, they come from government!

I’m tired of progressive do-gooders trying to erase every ill and wipe away every tear with my money.

If you want to guarantee those who refuse to work three squares and a roof over their heads, great!  Start a charity and collect voluntary contributions.  There are enough soft-headed people in this country that you could probably make a go of it.

Life’s not fair!  I’ll never make as much money playing the fiddle as Charlie Daniels

A good government doesn’t guarantee you decent housing and a good job.  It provides an even playing field where you can go as far as your own efforts and initiative take you.  Picking favorites and wasting taxpayer money on chimeric programs narrows that field and fills it with potholes.

The referees are now tripping some players while pushing others over the goal line.