Children grow up to be people like you and me, using them as some sort of great monolithic backdrop as to why we should support a bad idea (welfare) is oddly pathetic seeing as most people that believe in doing this, using the children, are also 110% pro abortion. I'm ok with abortion, but I also don't use children to ruin other people lives.
I'm not going to let a child be hungry in the streets, but it's not my responsibility to raise them. Those kids the left is so concerned about are little more than pawns in a political game. For all the bleeding heart statements we get, it isn't like the left does anything about it besides pick my pocket. On that front, I'm far more concerned with making sure my kids are fed to worry about children I don't know and won't ever meet. It's horrible that they go without sometimes, but that's their parent(s) problem, not mine.