The Bush Bankruptcy: Political, Financial, and….Moral

We are not in a recession. We are not in the Second Great Depression. We are in the Bush Bankruptcy. And we are in deep trouble because of it, not just financially but on every conceivable level. More people than before are now asking “should I go bankrupt?“. It is a fair question and some people and businesses may find themselves in that position no matter the economic circumstances. But it seems like this question has been unfairly forced upon many by the Bush administration, and for that reason, they are looking to bankruptcy lawyers in Harrisburg PA, and within their local state for help.

The Bush Bankruptcy reached A zenith yesterday when in an atmosphere of attempted bi partisanship that is driving the people who have spent 8 years fighting against Bush, Rush, Dick and their army of conservative bootlickers into fits of frustration…..every single Republican voted against a bill to rescue America and the world from the mess that they have made. Every Single One.

Every single one of the people who were the direct causation of Bush Bankruptcy SPIT on the hand that was extended to them. Obama reached out to these people who have driven this bus off this cliff and are now watching it plunge into this abyss of ruination…and they rejected it.

They rejected political reconciliation, they rejected a financial solution and perhaps worst of all, they rejected their moral obligation to repair the damage that THEY have done. Damage not to some political ideal, or financial philosophy, but to real living and breathing human beings who are suffering because of them. They know the facts, they have seen the figures, they have heard the stories of suffering….and yet they chose to continue down the exact same road that led us to this awful scary place we find ourselves in: The Bush Bankruptcy.

The old stale ideas that they offer are bankrupt, have been proven to be bankrupt in the Real World. The old stale tactics of smear and division that they are using are bankrupt, they have been proven to be bankrupt by the polarized and thus paralyzed political reality they so ably illustrated yesterday, in the midst of a real crisis for our country. And the old stale morality of their ‘government for the rich’ policies have been proven bankrupt by the millions of ordinary Americans who are being thrown out of their middle class homes and middle class jobs….because of that bankrupt approach to ‘governance.’

But perhaps where the Bush Bankruptcy has hurt us all the most is in the subversion of our greater morality. The Bush Bankruptcy has lead us as a people down a road where Americans are now forced to make stunning moral choice….based not on the actual issues of morality, but based on politics.

Torture.

The worst thing one human can do to another. Is death worse than torture? It doesn’t matter, because during the Bush Bankruptcy we tortured people to death, so we have crossed that line. Now we have a chance for a moral reckoning, a chance to reject the Culture of Torture that Bush forced us into. A chance to do the right thing. A chance at redemption. A chance to choose the moral high road again. A chance to be a nation that not only does not ….as we ‘move forward’….torture, but a nation that also repudiates this worst of all human sins by repudiating those who sinned.

Torture is wrong. That is NOT a political statement. That is a moral statement. But the Bush bankruptcy has taken it from a moral issue which no sane person would support….before Bush….and made it into a political issue.

George Bush and the forces in America that he represents divided and bankrupted us to the point where millions of Americans now SUPPORT TORTURE. They have been forced by the polarization of the Bush Bankruptcy into supporting the worst thing a human can do to another human….for political reasons. Because they have followed their political leader down a dark road, the road of moral bankruptcy, where ANY moral sin can be excused.

And has lead us all of us to make a stark moral choice. Do we now ignore this greatest of all sins….because it is uncomfortable to have to directly address where the Bush Bankruptcy has led us? Because we are so bankrupt in every aspect of our lives, thanks to Bush, that we now let expediency and discomfort dictate our morality as a nation? This is the choice that George Bush has left us. This is the moral dilemma at the very center of our national crisis.

The Bush Bankruptcy and its pervasive corruption has stained every aspect of our lives. We have a series of choices to make to recover from the bush bankruptcy….but NONE of them is as important a choice as choosing to once again become a moral country, to rebuild on the cornerstone of American morality that existed before Bush and thus start to pull ourselves out of the Bush Bankruptcy, morally, financially, and politically.

We cannot “fix” our country without “fixing” our morality. Until we do that…we will continue to be bankrupt. No matter what happens financially or politically.