Federal Reserve Sticks With Stimulus

http://money.cnn.com/2013/05/01/news/economy/federal-reserve-stimulus/index.html?iid=SF_E_Lead

This article tells of how the FED will continue to purchase $85 billion a month in mortgage-backed securities and Treasuries to stimulate spending in the economy and keep long-term interest rates low. They are doing this to combat the high unemployment rate and low inflation, which were suggested to be the result of cuts in government sopending.

Of course they will slow down or speed up as needed in response to economic activity, but the central bank is quite a ways away from attaining their goal of an unemployment rate of 6.5% or inflation higher than 2.5% a year. The unemployment rate was 7.6% as of late March and inflation is rising only 1% year to year.

The FED's actions have been appreciated in the stock market, stocks having recovered since the crisis, but there is some controversy that the plans will either backfire, causing vigorous rising inflation, or simply not work as Congress tries to combat debt. It was suggested by only one member of the FED that their decisions could potentially cause future economic problems/imbalances.

I think the FED is making a good decision to try and balance out the government spending cuts and to lower the unemployment rate, but is the trade-off (a possible blow to the future) more debtramental than the benefit is helpful?