In a perfect world, that'd be ideal, but this isn't a perfect world. If we re pay the debt of the country, it'll just go back up again until the system is fixed.
Let's say they distributed money evenly to everyone, you'd still have people who would blow through it in a matter of days/weeks/months. It's the same thing when people win the lottery. You have plenty of people who have invested their winnings and provided for their family and themselves, but you hear more about the people who are broke within a year or two. Poor are gonna be poor, rich are gonna be rich.
There are plenty of people who this would help immensely, but you have just as many who would squander it away with bad choices.