[The Urban Sombrero]

Many great business men have filed bankruptcy at some point, some more than once. Of the ones I know personally, their eventual success and positive contributions much outweighed the problems caused by the bankruptcies.

If some of our greatest inventors, innovators and entrepreneurs had not been able to utilize bankruptcy, I don't think things would be quite the same.

I'm sure most people posting here (if they took the leap) would also use bankruptcy just as Trump did to protect themselves and family, as would Ted Cruz. Most people (including Cruz) get a weekly check and risk nothing when paying their bills.

Don't get me wrong, I fully understand that bankruptcy isn't all good and is at times taken advantage of. I also understand that it's almost vital.

The issue is moot to me because I know that if ANY of the people trying to make it an issue were in the Don's shoes at the time, they would have done the same thing.

The use of bankruptcy as a business strategy is the domain of the careless risk taker, a world inhabited by sharkish lawyers. A bankruptcy declared by a "Thomas Edison" type, or a family crippled by medical bills is a whole other thing.