Tom the Dancing Bug by Ruben Bolling for October 30, 1999

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george w. bush field of dreams he was a simple texas rich guy at a party when he heard a mysterious whisper. if you get the government to build it, they will come. so he took out a loan and chipped in to buy the texas rangers, a major league baseball team. gosh, this is fun. i sure hope it works out okay. then the city of arlington strangely decided to use taxpayer money to build a state-of-the-art stadium to be given to the rangers. ask for the adjacent land, for commercial development. oh yeah, one more thing i'll need... on the strength of that windfall, the man received $15 million for his $600,000 investment. hey, i'm good at business. then he became governor of the great state and got hundreds of thousands of citizens off of texas's welfare rolls. you've got to learn to be independent! no one should get handouts from the governemnt! now, as the man readies himself to become president, with money drawn to him in prodigious amounts, a figure emerges from the shadows. Is this heaven, or what? in texas, that depends on who your daddy is!