FDR had the radical notion that everyone in America should enjoy several basic rights, he did not use the word “entitlements”. These basic rights included: a job, a decent home, medical care, education, and protection from old age destitution. Social Security and Medicare solved two of these problems for seniors. Obamacare will cover the medical part for the general population, too, if Congress will shed its virulent partisanship and enact the necessary amendments. That leaves the rest of FDR’s vision open to the question of which are rights and which are entitlements, and should the public, through the workings of government, be involved in providing any of them? That is the question. Conservatives say “no”. Progressives say; “If there is the will, there will be a way.”