We were contacted that 50 troops that are in the Valley don't have any money for food or gas and they need our assistance," said the leader of the local food bank.
Oops.
It's a cliche to work "oops" into any story about Rick Perry, but shouldn't it tell us something that the word always fits so well? For a guy who wants to be Commander in Chief, Perry looks like an even bigger idiot than usual by sending troops to the border without packing them so much as peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. Maybe now Perry will send in the Red Cross to provide humanitarian assistance to the National Guard so they can go back to scaring away drug smugglers instead of dealing with the border kids.
This isn't the first signal that Perry didn't completely think this one through, and at this point I feel compelled to reassure you that I'm not making up any of what I'm about to tell you.
To pay for his military adventure, Perry declared an emergency but didn't use money from the emergency fund because, he said, a real emergency like a hurricane might come up. So he raided the money ($38 million for two months) from funds in the budget for the Texas Department of Public Safety that were set aside for an emergency radio system — such as might be used in a real emergency like a hurricane. And then he told them that their mission was to offer support for the Texas Department of Public Safety.
