Obama is the king of victims. You didn't succeed ... no problem it wasn't your fault, its not fair. The system was designed for you to fail ... you never had a chance to succeed. Obama says the same thing about himself. So, yes in todays US you have a right to squat on public and private property and do what ever the fuck you want. You didn't see this sort of bullshit when Reagan was around.
We're you even alive when Reagan was around?
I was living in the USA while Reagan was president, ...and I can assure you it wasn't pretty.
And yes, the system IS designed for you to fail. Those of us who recognized that early on are the ones who escape the traps laid out, and succeed. And OzmO's reference is not a reference to private property.
But if you want to take a step back in history, your country wouldn't exist if it weren't for a bunch of people who decided to squat on someone else's land. Not content with just squatting, they then proceeded to orchestrate wholesale genocide against them.
Perhaps it's this unspoken truth of their ow history that scares the heck out of some people, ...either that, or the fear that they will soon be joining their ranks.