Because, duh, we aren’t printing enough money. There is lots of excess capacity in this country, but no one is using it because no one is spending money and there’s no need to build more stuff. If we printed more money, we might be able to get that capacity into production.
In any case, the US isn’t broke and it isn’t going broke. This hysteria is laughable. So is the idea of the gold standard. If there would be any way to fuel deflation and an end to the economy as we know it, it would be to employ a gold standard. An economy needs to be as flexible as possible. The gold standard would freeze available capital, and actually would cause the country to go broke. Needlessly. Except people who know nothing about economics hear some catch phrase and start repeating it ad nauseum as if they know what they’re talking about.
But it’s the same people asking these questions over and over, so one has to wonder what their agendas really are. Because all these policies benefit the superrich, while screwing the rest of us. Of course, these are the same people complaining about the conspiracies of the trilateral group and at the same time they try to implement policies that advantage such conspiracies, which don’t exist in the first place.
I think what is really going on here is merely expressions of frustration. You strike out in all directions, even though it is meaningless, because you want to feel like you are doing something. You aren’t, but so what. When your fist lands in someone’s face, it still makes a satisfactory crunch.