yeah maybe $500 monthly payments for some number of months with an explanation of why (we understand what causes inflation). That would certainly lift the national mood.

The US debt is too large to be paid. It's just monopoly money now. I would be inclined to just educate the population and the world that the whole thing was a fraud and we're not paying it sorry. You know, pay the part of it that is real and prosecute all the pharisees (mammons) for the balance. We won't extract it all from them but it will cheer people up in a couple of different ways.