content: Thank you. I was interested to hear how they would respond to him.  Update post watch: I have to admit I not only liked Ben's points but the lady to the right of Ben earned loads of respect in my book. Going from a poor minority to owning her own business? Emphasizing that she was once a dependent on welfare and the system currently discourages you from breaking out of that income level? It was only after she applied herself, chased every opportunity and eventually broke through. She really made great points about the current system discouraging that from happening which I found most concerning. It reminds me of a talk from AEI that mentioned that you need 3 things to break from poverty: transformation, relief and opportunity (and in that order) article version here. The problem today is we make welfare recipients dependent on relief, rather than push them towards opportunity like employment/vocational training. Hats off to Ben as he was great as usual, but I was really impressed with her.  As for the PhD on the far left, she made some decent points and was quite good at arguing her points specifically with respect to Banks and the settlements regarding systemic discrimination that were won in court. The guy to the left of Ben though was completely incoherent, irrelevant and didn't know what he was talking about.