The U.S. Constitution grants (guarantees) individuals certain rights.
However, there are many more "rights" -- so many more -- for which the U.S. Constitution does not provide.
In other words, they are not actually rights per se. Instead, they are privileges.
Rights Not* - Explicitly, no American has any "right" to the following privileges:
- Job
- Education
- Happiness (only the pursuit there of)
- Money
- Good health
- Health care
- Home
- Shelter
- Food
- Long life (only the start of life)
- Liberty (only the blessings of)
- Friends
- Family
- Fame
- Fortune
- Wealth
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- Clean water
- Safety
- Transportation
- Clean environment
- Water
- Electricity
- Telephone
- Broadband
- Entertainment
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On the other hand, large corporations believe that they (the corporate entities) have an inherent right to Fortune, Wealth, Money - without any government interference or restrictions -- all in the name of Capitalism and [their version of] Free Enterprise.
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In fact, no good patriotic American1 would want the average (or any other) American citizen (or potential citizen) to have any of these "non-rights" (i.e., privileges2) unless those persons earn them for themselves the hard way (or inherit them).
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