Bill Whittle of the National Review focused in on something that was said during Tuesday night's Presidential Debate.Do you recall when Barack Obama was asked if he thought health care was a “right.” Obama said he thought it was a right. If that is a right, then what else in our country could be considered a right.

Food is more essential than health care. You can't live very long without food. Then having food provided for us, following Obama's thinking, should be a right. We've got to have shelter. We must have a "right" to housing. If we have a right to housing then what should that standard of housing be. Should some people have better housing than we do, if it is our right. It seems housing ought to be standardized. Health care should be standardized, too. Why should we have to accept less quality in our health care compared to someone else, if it is our right.
Well, if you accept Obama's premise, I think you can ask some logical follow-up questions: Food is more important than health care. You die pretty quickly without food. Do we have a “right” to food in America? What about shelter? And what if somebody has better shelter than we do? If it's our right, that's not fair. What standard of housing do we have a right to? And if it is a right, due to all Americans, wouldn’t that mean that no one should have to accept any housing, or health care, which is inferior to anyone else? Do we have a "right" to be comfortable? Shouldn't our houses be air-conditioned, if others have it. Where does all this end.

When the Founding Fathers talked about rights as enshrined in the Constituion, they mentioned things like "free speech." The "right" to health care is not mentioned.

So why shouldn’t we amend the Constitution to include the rights to health care, food, housing, education — all the rest? What’s the difference between the rights we have and the “rights” Obama wants to give us? Simply this: Constitutional rights protect us from things: intimidation, illegal search and seizure, self-incrimination, and so on. The revolutionary idea of our Founding Fathers was that people had a God-given right to live as they saw fit. Our constitutional rights protect us from the power of government.
Columnist Bill Whittle says these new so-called “rights” are about the government — who the Founders saw as the enemy — giving us things: food, health care, education... And when we have a right to be given stuff that previously we had to work for, then there is no reason — none — to go and work for them. The goody bag has no bottom, except bankruptcy and ruin.
Does that ring a little familiar these days? Because isn’t the danger here that if you’re offered something for nothing… you’ll take it?
Only it’s not something for nothing. “Free” health-care costs us something precious, and no less precious for being invisible. Because there’s a word for someone who has their food, housing and care provided for them… for people who owe their existence to someone else.
And that word is “slaves.” You'll see Bill Whittle's article in the National Review.