The credit industry simply hates to see someone declaring personal bankruptcy. After all, for those who provide unsecured finance, this means that they are unlikely to see that money repaid, in the case of chapter 7. As such, many credit industry figureheads tend to make out those who are declaring personal bankruptcy as being scam artists who simply want to evade their debts and avoid responsibility to paying them. They make out that anyone who decides to declare personal bankruptcy is someone who will avoid repaying their debts at the expense of other hard working Americans.
This, of course, is not the case. Anyone can get in over their head financially. Even the federal government has!! But the point is that, while consumers should absolutely take complete responsibility for their bad spending habits, people who declare bankruptcy often have no other choice. If you are in a situation whereby, even with all the possible changes you can make to your spending habits, you would still be entirely unable to pay off your outstanding debts in the foreseeable future, then you probably have little choice but bankruptcy.