Rights

What is a right? Isn't it an entitlement. We are endowed ...with life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. We are entitled to life, entitled to liberty, and entitled to the pursuit of happiness. We are not entitled to happiness, just the pursuit of happiness.
FDR proposed a new set of rights which have taken hold and used to justify government intevention today. Here are FDR's "economic rights".
The right to a useful and remunerative job in the industries or shops or farms or mines of the nation;
The right to earn enough to provide adequate food and clothing and recreation;
The right of every farmer to raise and sell his products at a return which will give him and his family a decent living;
The right of every businessman, large and small, to trade in an atmosphere of freedom from unfair competition and domination by monopolies at home or abroad;
The right of every family to a decent home;
The right to adequate medical care and the opportunity to achieve and enjoy good health;
The right to adequate protection from the economic fears of old age, sickness, accident, and unemployment;
The right to a good education.
Are we entitled to these? If so, how are they provided? The answer typically given is that government provides them. OK, if so, how are they financed? Well, with taxes or by printing money or borrowing the proponents say. But, this means that the government is taking from someone in order to provide these rights to someone else. So how can the government both deny rights and provide rights. It can't. That is why these can not be rights. No one can guarantee a good education to everyone or a decent home to everyone, etc., etc. Trying to do so is what prompted the subprime mortgages and the financial mess we are currently experiencing.