Perry practices feudalism, steal from the poor . It's good to be King.

Rick Perry’s Christianity in action, reports the Houston Chronicle:

The participants at the prayer vigil organized by Gov. Rick Perry were treated to arctic blasts of the stuff Saturday, with Reliant Stadium’s 12,000 tons of air-conditioning keeping temperatures nippy. But as historic temperatures scorch Texas for the third straight month with triple-digit misery, $650 million collected from Texas electricity consumers to assist poor elderly and disabled citizens with their utility bills sits idly in a state bank account.

Instead of serving its intended humanitarian purpose, the state’s $650 million System Benefit Fund now serves a political one — permitting Perry and other Republican leaders to keep their “no new taxes” pledge.

In February, the Perry-appointed Public Utility Commission voted to reduce aid distributed from the fund, allowing its corpus to grow ever bigger. The fund, a big positive entry in the state comptroller’s ledger of the state’s fiscal condition, is now an essential tool in “balancing” the state’s budget.

7 miles away, another much larger rally got no national attention, 100,000 needy turned out at a convention center for assistance.  Houston’s first-ever, citywide back-to-school event at George R. Brown Convention Center, where free backpacks, school supplies, uniforms, haircut vouchers, immunizations, and fresh produce were provided.
 Further note about the much touted Texas miracle.  400k jobs, 1 million jobs, depends on what you read, but many of these jobs were not created by the A&M cheerleader boy.  They were stolen from other states by promises of free land, free utilities, tax holidays, stolen not created, and local tax payers can make up the dif. if needed.  Many of the jobs come from federal dollars; military bases, defense industry, the mint, highway projects, government offices.  Add to that the benefit to the economy of illegals, they work, they get paid dirt wages then run off for show.  Oil industry also has growth, as does alternative energy.  All this TX miracle does mean growth, much of it in the form of the largest (or 2nd) population of minimum wage earners in the nation, and, the unemployment is still high.  If oil prices had not soared, and jobs had not been stolen from other states, the growth would be in line with most other states.