Printing money to fix big debt creates a lot of side-effects and risk, including that of run-away inflation. If you want the US Dollar to mean something consist

Printing money to fix big debt creates a lot of side-effects and risk, including that of run-away inflation. If you want the US Dollar to mean something consistent, it has to stay relatively consistent. That being said, inflation has been relatively mild of late such that a little extra "printing" may not hurt much this time. I just don't like printing as a general fix.