"Self-supporting alcoholics? Who ever heard of such a thing? Yet we
find that's what we have to be. This principle is telling evidence of
the profound change that AA has wrought in all of us. Everybody knows
that active alcoholics scream that they have no troubles money can't
cure. Always, we've had our hands out. Time out of mind we've been
dependent upon somebody, usually money-wise. When a society composed
entirely of alcoholics says it's going to pay its bills, that's really
news." (Twelve and Twelve, Tradition Seven, pg. 160)