The Fox News Sponsored Battle Between Two Elected Blacks Showcases The Folly Of Investing One's Future In Politically Based Outcomes

The Black community's immediate history is one filled with "Winning but losing".
Elections won but consciousness and our 'Permanent Interests' as unobtained as "WMDs in Iraq".

The great debate that was set up between "Tea Party favorite" Rep Allen West (R-FL) and "Illegal Immigrants Have Rights Too" marcher Rep Donna Edwards (D-MD)

Critical issues that will no doubt negatively impact the Black community in the next 20 to 40 years were boiled down to ideological talking points where eggs were thrown on the respective opposition party.  The underlying argument is rooted on the notion that one party loves the elderly per their willingness to raise taxes in order to care for them at all costs.  The other party loves the elderly and wants to ensure that the system that allows them to live at a state that is above destitution remains fiscally solvent in the first place.

As I analyze all of the positions and their respective claim of the moral high ground it is indisputable that the one missing element in both parties is the clear communication of ORGANIC COMPETENCY DEVELOPMENT AT THE PERIPHERY as the only way we are going to:

• Have a system that remains solvent over the duration
• Have a system that provides resources in support of those who have retired from active productive work and have earned the privilege of living with the help of public assistance 

The debate was one for the benefit of partisans.   Black people have increasingly fused our community consciousness upon the "American Political Domain" that these two individuals operate within.  We have been lulled into investing our hopes into politics where our "Equal Black Ballots" are deposited.  There exists little evidence that our local human resources are used to eek out a strategic advantage for seniors living within our community per the targeted services or financial arrangements that have been established.  Much of which had been provided by the family in the past is now nationalized.  In as much as this national government is $14T in arrears and growing fast - the standard of living afforded to our seniors and the vulnerable among us is increasingly a matter of credit purchases.