The Hard of the Hard

HOUSTON — Texas Gov. Rick Perry on Thursday rejected $555 million in federal stimulus money that would expand state unemployment benefits.

In Cabala the number five is commiserate with severity; there are five parts of the mouth which produce speech: the lips, the teeth, the tongue, the pallet and the throat—there are also five letters in the Hebrew alphabet which change their form when ending a word, they are known as the Five Severities. Three fives also has a meaning since one is a point, two is line and three a triangle—the first expression of unity and strength.

In Texas, known to be a hard place run by hard people where they top the states in the number of people put to death by the state has shown their true colors—the green and greed of money—by taking first from the most vulnerable.