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They claim they want to give these kids the tools they need to realize their dreams. Since when is anyone guaranteed that they will succeed? Making them dependent on the government to buy things for them isn't giving them tools at all, it is handicapping them, just as millions of black children are also handicapped year after year by their mothers being on welfare.

You want to give kids tools to succeed, teach them how to work and get them summer jobs so they develop a work ethic. Giving people money almost never helps them do better. The old(Christian)saying of "Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day, but teach him how to fish and you feed him for a life time" is all too true and just as relevant today as it was thousands of years ago.

"I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion of the means. I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it."

— Benjamin Franklin, On the Price of Corn and Management of the Poor; 29 November 1766