Healthcare, housing and food are not “rights” anymore good wine, love, and going to the movies are “rights”. Anytime you, I or anybody gets something from somebody else, the person or entity providing the service or product is entitled to fair compensation. It is the “right” of the person offering the service or product to withhold the product if he feels the compensation offered is not fair. And no adult has the “right” to make anybody else pay for his needs or wants. The only legitimate payment for an adult person’s wants or needs by others is made voluntarily, even if the adult is totally disabled.
Socialism is unsustainable. As pointed out above, Cuba and Canada are not replacing themselves by reproductive methods, and Cuba’s population is actually declining. Canada can only grow by means of immigration. The educated and talented young are leaving Holland in droves. France, Italy and the UK are similar to Canada in their moribund repro rates and are financially shoring up their social programs by taking in immigrants. How long are these mostly third-world immigrants, who come from places where want is real and premature death is common, going to be content paying for cradle to grave care for rich Canadians and Europeans?
