Lileks:

Later I was talking with an architect, who described how housing is a right in Europe, unlike America, where there is no such right.

“But it’s a right granted by the state,” I said.

“Yes, of course.”

“So if the state grants it, the state can take it away.”

He was baffled. “Yes, of course, but they wouldn’t.”

Mm-hmm. Yeah, that never happens.

Americans. So simple, so naive.