Recommended: America Needs a 12-Step Recovery Program

Also in Forbes Dec 13, 2010 is a good article by Rich Karlgaard (publisher of Forbes), America Needs a 12-Step Recovery Program.  The allusion to the Alcoholics Anonymous program is not incidental, since as a nation we are clearly addicted to a number of unhealthy things, like debt-financed social programs and Middle Eastern oil. Karlgaards suggestions make sense to me.  The question is how can we get a ruling elite in Washington to ever enact any of these policies?