Regardless of the Ability to Pay

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In US, We the People demand our rights to "Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness". Our Constitution establishes a government and defines the roles of the people working in it. Along the way many seem to have decided that there is no life, liberty or happiness without entitlements. The entitlements are meant to be based on "need", but in demanding entitlements for the needy, haven't we defined what needs are more important than others... but more dangerous... whose needs are more important than others? We have taxpayer funded programs that provide food, health care, transportation, heating/power/water assistance and all sorts of other things for the "needy". However but don't we all "need" food, health care, transportation, heating/power and water? Sure, some people can afford food better than others, since when do we base Constitutional Rights on the ability to pay? Where does it say, "Life, Liberty & the pursuit of happiness to those who can't afford them... the rest of you can fend for yourself". Why are the "needy" entitled to anything not freely available to all in the first place? I can see why buildings and property open to the public should be made accessible to all, but for all our talk... is it? Wheelchair ramps, braille signs, audible instructions and warnings make access available to the crippled, blind and deaf. Pictographs help the illiterate or foreign laguage speakers, and benches help the elderly or otherwise weakened among us... regardless of the ability to pay. But even in our quest for equal access, we discriminate pretty openly. People who need glasses don't have any easier time reading without glasses than the blind, illiterate or foreign speakers, yet do we furnish them with glasses? Those pictographs were meant to help people who can't read, but then we go and color code things, without regard to the "colorblind"... in fact, colorblindness isn't even a conditioned worthy of "equal access". We are not only left to fend for ourselves, but if we cause an accident, it is OUR FAULT. Our rights are ours, regardless of ability to pay, but apparently some people have more access to those rights than those with the ability to pay.