Are food, healthcare and shelter a right?

At gettingfoddstamps.org the headline is Getting food stamps. It's your right. If you meet the guidelines you may be entitled to them under the law but is it a basic human right? Squatters across the country are trespassing in vacant homes and setting up shop. They have been told that the home is not being used so they should not be denied shelter. Illegal immigrants come acroos the border for medical care because it's their right to be healthy.

For years rights advocates have tried to push their agenda in these areas. In 2004 An investigator for the United Nations Commission on Human Rights cited the US for "a range of violations" in a "dire reality" of "human rights denial" in the area of housing. Philip Mangano, who was the executive director of the federal Interagency Council on Homelessness said "It may very well be this wrong of homelessness will lead us to establish the right to housing. That would be consistent with our history of righting wrongs in this country, like slavery, and then creating rights afterward."

What right does the US or any government have to tell us that we owe a home, food or healthcare to someone else? Was this how our founding fathers saw the job of government? I wish someone could show me where those rights are laid out. Even as a Christian I would have a hard time finding the passages that would lead me to that conclusion. We are to help the needy but that does not mean we are to give to government so they can decide who is needy. We as individuals are to take the task upon ourselves of feeding and caring for the less fortunate.

If the government can make up rights that are not in our founding papers how long until the things that matter to you will be taken away or given to someone else? Elections do matter!