Cruel to be kind. But is it a good thing?

There is a saying that sometimes you have to be cruel to be kind. The most obvious example that comes to mind is that of a surgeon who cuts up a person to remove a tumor. It causes a lot of pain but may save the person's life. However, when it comes to poverty it is impossible to say that starving people should not be helped with food, clothing, shelter and medical care. But how far should the government go? The High Court in Delhi has ordered the government to pay Rs 450,000 per month to treat a child with Gaucher's Disease, which is a hereditary metabolic disease common in the middle east. The father pleaded that he had already lost 4 children with this disease and the government was duty bound to treat this child. Why is the man going on producing children when he knows that he is carrying the gene? Does he not have any responsibility towards his own children? Why did he not get a diagnosis in the early stages of pregnancy? In India the most expensive disease is Chronic Renal Failure where a patient can be kept alive indefinitely at the cost of Rs 10,000 per week. A person can easily become bankrupt. So, if a middle class person develops Renal Failure should he not be treated free of charge by the government so that his family does not suffer? Where does it stop? However, this is not an emotional or moral problem as socialists make it out to be. It is simply about money. Even the US, the richest country in the world, is finding it difficult to balance its budget due to social security payments. Britain has been forced to cap social security payments to reduce its deficit. Giving handouts encourages people to depend on the state and stop working. Benefits cheats cost Britain, a country with just 60 million people, a colossal 2 billion pounds per year or $3.3 billion. France, with its high labor cost and high taxes, is the sick man of Europe, having an average growth rate of just 0.8% in the last 3 years.
It seems abundantly clear now that you can either become a rich nation by limiting government expenditure to productive investments, such as infrastructure, which will provide the poor with jobs or you can sympathise with them by giving them handouts which will make the entire country poor. The poor do not remain poor out of choice but because they cannot get jobs that pay living wages. And once they get accustomed to the handouts they demand more. That is why politicians are promising to create millions of jobs as well as increase handouts. Never worked and never will.