Twelve Step Program for Congress and the President of the United States.

At a joint session of Congress at which all members are required to attend along with the President and Vice President the following

Twelve Step program will be sworn to as issued by the Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court, Justice John Roberts.

1.      We admit we are powerless over our spending—that our lives have become unmanageable. THE NATIONAL DEBT

2.      We have come to believe that a power greater than ourselves can restore us to sanity. THE ELECTORATE

3.      We have made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of THE ELECTORATE.

4.      We must, are required to, make a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves or THE ELECTORATE WILL DO IT FOR US.

5.      We must admit to THE ELECTORATE and ourselves the exact nature of our wrongs.

6.      We are entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character or THE ELECTORATE WILL REMOVE US FROM OFFICE.

7.      We humbly ask Him to remove our shortcomings or THE ELECTORATE WILL REMOVE US FROM OFFICE.

8.      We will make a list of all persons we have harmed and are willing to make amends to them all or THE ELECTORATE WILL REMOVE US FROM OFFICE.

9.      We will not have our names applied to any public building, facility or piece of legislation, for we are to serve humbly and not seek self recognition or THE ELECTORATE WILL REMOVE US FROM OFFICE.

10. We will continue to take personal inventory and when we are wrong to promptly admit it or THE ELECTORATE WILL REMOVE US FROM OFFICE.

11.  We will continue to be solicitous of our ELECTORATE to improve our conscious contact with them or THE ELECTORATE WILL REMOVE US FROM OFFICE.

The Principles of Selling

Let’s see now, Amtrak loses money. The Post Office loses money. The road and bridge trust fund is empty and must be subsidized by congressional appropriations. Medicare and Medicaid are rapidly going broke and the Social Security Trust fund has been plundered for God knows what and will soon be facing the tsunami of retiring Baby Boomers. So now, the all-knowing representatives and senators and the President want government run health care. This is not about insuring 46 million uninsured residents or providing healthcare for them. This is about what government wants for itself, to control our healthcare system. 

They will use the crying or sentimental sale. Don’t you want to provide health insurance and health care for those 46 million who currently don’t have it? No. That’s their problem and not mine. Besides they already have access to healthcare through community clinics. And the program wouldn’t include all 46 million anyway. 

Then comes the, how can we live without it sell. Things will get much worse without healthcare reform. We have to do it now. Prices and insurance premiums will go up and force people out of affordable health insurance. Really, well why don’t we wait a few years and see? Are 46 million people going to drop dead in the streets if healthcare reform doesn’t pass? No. Are they going to revolt in the streets if they don’t get health insurance? No. Is this going to cause a national security crisis if they don’t get health insurance? No. Will there be huge cost overruns and huge deficits and debt if we do pass healthcare reform? YES!

Then follows, the blackmail or Chicago twisting arm sell. But we worked so hard on this. We expended a lot of energy to provide this opportunity. We’re so close to providing everything. How can you reject it now? Because I have a right to say: No. It’s going to cost too much money and most people who already have health insurance are satisfied with what they have. Why should Americans be sold on something most already have?