Both internationally, and domestically.
Peg the dollar at $400 an ounce today, and if we dont have the gold, then we cant spend any more money. If we dont have the gold to give Iraq a half trillion, then we have to get out. If we dont have the gold to pay for prescriptions, then we cant have federal paid prescriptions. etc.
No, thank you - I, like most people who don't currently own gold, am not interested in plans that result in my instant impoverishment by the stroke of a pen...