Twelve Steps With Much License and Some Poetic Justice

1. Admitted we were powerless over moochers and our finances had become unmanageable.


2. Came to believe that this association could restore us to solvency.


3. Made a searching and fearless inventory of our finances.


4. Told the association the exact nature of our loans.


5. Made a list of all persons who had stung us and became anxious to collect from them all.


6. Made such collection wherever possible by help of the association, lawyers if necessary, knowing full well that money owed benefits neither the receiver or the giver.


7. Realized that cashing checks was the business of banks, Western Union and the Post Office.


8. Continued to take financial inventory and when we were paid, promptly admitted it.


9. Reported defalcations to neighboring groups of AA, purely for the protection of our friends.


10. Recalled that formerly all alcoholics got out of financial messes on their own and our financial help could continue a drunk or prevent recovery.


11. If some case seemed otherwise hopeless, we consulted the whole society. Any help voted would be carried by the society or not at all.


12. Sought to help alcoholics in a spiritual and physical rather than a financial way, knowing full well that this is the AA Program.