Hey, Rick, You Didn’t Think They’d Eat?
About 50 of the Texas National Guard troops that Governor Rick Perry sent to the Valley on August 11th don’t get paid until September 5th.
They’ve asked for help from the food bank for food and gas money.
Yes, really.
They came here to help protect the border but now the first wave of Texas National Guard troops deployed after Governor Rick Perry made the call, are needing assistance to pay for food and gas.
“We were contacted that 50 troops that are in the Valley don’t have any money for food and gas and they need our assistance,” said Food Bank RGV Executive Director Terri Drefke.
Well, ain’t that some dandy planning?
Napoleon said that an army moves on it’s stomach. Rick Perry says, “They’re big enough. They don’t need to eat.”
He wants to be President of the United States of American, y’all.
Standard GOP ‘planning’ with all the warmth and concern they can muster. Between what pRick’s legal fees and the guard boondoggle will cost Texans, ya’ll should be right happy to see that fool leave office. And a big NO, we do not want him at the national level. We sure don’t need OOPs times 50 states.
1No, he didn’t think they needed to eat – because those troops are not real to him – anymore than the soldiers that died for bs wars for profit. We are all just pawns to these guys.
2Maybe Perry thought the troops could confiscate food from the children they apprehended. No sense letting it go to waste.
Do you think the good governor will be in line at his local food bank tonight?
3Conservatwerps see troops as tools, not people.
4They just want to dare the Supreme Court to incorporate the 3rd amendment against the states.
5How is pRick going to pay for this. I understand that up to a 1000 National Guard troops will be deployed at a later date.
Is pRick hoping the Feds will reimburse TexAss for a deployment that was not requested by the Feds. The Feds appear to have it under control with the US Customs and Border Control.
I haven’t heard much about the unauthorized militias and numbskulls patrolling the border. Are they turning illegals over to the officials? Are they capturing any, just sitting around drinking beer, or target practicing and leaving the bodies where they lie?
6Great smack down, Jason! Quartering of troops (3rd) and the 2nd Amendments are so far from what life was like over 200 years ago. American bases litter the landscape at home and abroad such that we have more than enough housing to ‘quarter the troops’ on the bases.
2nd? Thinking the NRA and the gun nuts are pretty close to pulling the plug on their own abject silliness.
RIP Michael Brown, and thank you for opening what will be a dialogue that will lead to the end of senseless tragedies like you and your family are enduring.
7Coprolite, Perry assured us he was going to sue the Federal government for the cost of sending troops to the border. You know, as if the Feds thought he was being as helpful as he thinks he is.
8Rick, I don’t think Perry planned on having the troops confiscate food from the children they apprehended. That’s overly complicated when they could just go ‘A Modest Proposal’ and solve two problems at once.
9Another case of Republican’ts not comprehending the consequences of their rush to act without thinking it through.
10Learn from Dubya’s playbook, pRick.
Support the troops – donate to a food bank.
11Damn! don’t that just remind you of what happened in the first gulf war in iraq? saddam hussein sent troops out to face our own army at the kuwaiti border without food for days and days. the video of our troops bringing the surrendered iraqis huge baskets loaded with enormous loaves of bread and how those poor starving guys lost all control and just dove into the baskets is something i will always remember. where the bleep was perry when this video was shown? oh, yeah. thats right! he has memory problems and my keyboard has cap problems.
12Perry claims he secured the border. What are the troops still doing there,besides not eating or going anywhere?
13When troop morale suffers, the commander has to build it back up. Everything will be just peachy after Ricky makes an inspirational tour of his troops.
Reminds me of my service in Germany when an utter jackass of a battalion commander, a lieutenant colonel who graduated West Point, no less, gathered us in the post movie theater one cold winter day to inform us, “Men, the reason you have been cold in the barracks at night is because you have no heat.”
No one dared laugh.
Maybe Perry can tell the Guardsmen that the reason they are hungry is because they have no food. I bet they won’t laugh either.
14… Which got me to wondering what ever happened to that battalion commander, so I just did some research. Turned out he died a few years ago in Texas(!) where he finished out his career teaching military science at a state university. Apparently the Army finally pigeonholed him where he could do the least amount of damage.
I had one direct encounter with him as we passed on a sidewalk near the post mess hall. Apparently I didn’t hold my salute long enough, so he “reinstructed” me on the proper method, making me stand and salute him for better than 20 seconds until he decided to drop his salute. Technically, the lower-ranking soldier always salutes first and holds it until the ranking officer acknowledges it with his return salute, but this commander was a pantywaist stickler for military protocol that no sensible officer ever worried about. The guy was a real chickenpoop artist. No Omar Bradley he.
Another episode conveys how much love he inspired among his enlisted men. One fellow in my company took a “German out,” getting a U.S. passport when his hitch was up so he could stay in Munich and work. He came back to our NCO club one evening, spotted the battalion commander who had strutted in, (where his wasn’t welcome in the first place) and promptly punched him out cold! Since our buddy was a civilian, all the MPs could do was escort him off the post and bar him from returning. Justice works in mysterious ways … and the more I think about him, the more I think that he and Perry are birds of a feather.
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