Bloomberg has published a provocative article about total US debt that is "at its lowest level since 2006". In Facebook an interesting discussion happened on this theme...

The original article is here...

The discussion follows:

Gavin McInnes Electioneering lies
Dmitry Yermolayev :)
Lorenzo Terбn #TeamAmerica
Johnny Lee Yeah right bloomy
Abdul Ghofur Choirudin Ionic
Martin Karl U.S. for teacher in Greece! :-)
Jibril Muhammad Oh yeah?.....
Shad Dove The responses are funny. Folks won't believe these numbers, but if the news would have been saying the debt is the highest - then they'd believe that smh
Robert J Conway I agree
Kevin Park the private sector borrowing is down and of course, the state borrowing will be down... if they are claiming, the federal, i'm really surprised. i would like to see other publications post this view, so far i only seen by bw and bloomberg and many blogs linking to this article.
Ahmed Said http://usdebtclock.org/
Heidi Lichter People just don't pay bank loans or credit cards anymore. No credit cards left for many - say THE TRUTH!
Andreas Rk W USA federal system EUR same currency different economies
Casey Badillo Interesting.... People think what they want to think regardless of the facts!!! People do some fact checks first before you start bashing!
Charles Randall Ewing check the numbers
Nirmal Kumar Not able to pay off the debt
Rigo Martinez How many trillions? LOL!
Ata Ur Rehman cooked up figures
Miftah Wazni Stop debt start sold our aset
Mike Kerkado yaayyyy let re elect the prez because of that good news! GOOD GRIEF!!!!
Kevin Park it depends... 40.2 to 4 means private sector isn't hiring or investing. they have a high uncertainty. Consumer debt of 12.7 to $11.4 trillion. Isn't a serious movement since 2008. If they are having more capital per household due to having less households... Deleveraging in the private sector may allow households to boost spending, which accounts for about 70 percent of the economy, and increase their capacity to pay taxes. Household wealth in the U.S. rose to $62.7 trillion as of June 30 from $51.2 trillion in early 2009, the Federal Reserve said Sept. 20.
that is true... which is a positive idea
Luiz Geraldo Bresciani This is tanks to who? President Obama! Under such circumstances I would like submit following
Stacy Dale Barendse All parties know the budget cannot be balanced. Fraction banking made sure of that. Hopefully I can still get some BS waders before they sell out.
Stephan Jдckel Well most of that debt was caused by REPUBLICAN policy makers..... so America write down todays numbers.... in case you really elect Romney you will not see such low debt figures for at least one presidential term.....
Want more debt vote Republican...... :-D
Brian Franch It just means that a bunch of homes have been foreclosed, Surprise! Less total debt!! (Federal government debt is the highest ever and accelerating)
Kevin Park Jackel... You don't seem to be very good at American history. Debt isn't really aligned to a party movement. That's what average Americans believe, because they don't study the history. Reagan and Bush (senior) have both raised taxes
John Ha USA!
Rudi Vorster how accurate is that - can't even believe the unemployment figures nowadays - for the past 50 + years now its been minipulated figures its not even cooked figures they are BAKED - SUNBAKED - NO NO NO WAIT - WAKE 'N BAKED
Aladeen Forker http://costofwar.com/
Michael Tai might be good for credit ratings in the short-term, it might also means that the global economy is slowing down. Can the debt level keep on decreasing with the US economy growing (even at a slow rate) ? Hopefully, the answer is "YES", then we have a new norm here.
Stephan Jдckel @Park
...and you are evidently totally unfamiliar with US politics and economic events.... Clintion did balance the budget after the Republicans let it run out of hands and when the Republicans returned to power debt grew out of hands again...... dunno why you talk about taxes when it comes to spending ......but everybody already knows that the only people the Republican lower taxes for are the highest earning people.....
Thyn Zar Oo thank u save the tax returns n just cut only 3 trillion enjoy yall
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This was the discussion up to October 9th, 16:00 p.m. GMT