Plead the First

It seems that the recent bankruptcy laws are so harsh that even our own government won’t enforce them. Via The Talent Show (who found it at TPMCafe):

the Justice Department has announced that it will waive enforcement of portions of the new bankruptcy law for Louisiana residents and some Mississippi residents. They got it right: On the eve of the effective date of the new laws, they see that the bill is a terrible mess for people who are in desperate financial trouble. Hurrah for the Justice Department for saying they will back off this terrible bill. Notice that to provide even minimal protection for people following a catastrophe, the Justice Department must offer wholesale waiver of enforcement of multiple provisions that Congress specifically put into the bill. That’s pretty strong evidence that the changes in the law are going to have a hard impact on families in trouble–including those who don’t get a special hurricane break.

Of course, this doesn’t help all the people around the country who are facing their own personal disasters, such as medical emergencies, job loss, and other such circumstances. Why should those issues be any less deserving of help simply because they aren’t concentrated in one geographical area?

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