"Right to Housing" for Homeless

(Paris, France) With an economy sporting a chronic 10 percent unemployment rate and advancing at garden slug speed, France is toying with a new way to piss away taxpayer euros -- legislating a right to housing.

Hey, Chirac, listen up. You want to reduce homelessness, make it a less attractive lifestyle. Then vagrants will at least have some motivation to change their situations. If you make homelessness more attractive, guess what happens.

Hopefully, the "right to housing" won't get past the toy stage. Either that or be prepared to legislate the "right to a refrigerator."