[hubbubhubbub]

When we were last on the Gold Standard the U.S. (not the Soviet Union) was the one that was hemorrhaging gold to pay for Vietnam and Johnson's WOP.

[dljordan]

"When we were last on the Gold Standard the U.S. (not the Soviet Union) was the one that was hemorrhaging gold to pay for Vietnam and Johnson's WOP."

And now we're hemorrhaging IOU's to pay for Iraq and Bush's War on Katrina. Things haven't changed much.