Economics question

Why is it when a kid asks "Why can't the government just print money to pay for everything" he gets told it's too simple to think like that and he doesn't understand concepts like the devaluation of currency, but when Obama asks the same question it's not considered the same thing?

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That goes for about all the crumbling systems (prison system, health care, defense spending).  Obama's a complete chickenshit, elected on the (guaranteed to be unfulfilled) hopes of college kids.  The only bone he'll toss to them is that he'll let people smoke weed in some states.