The problem with the gold standard is that there is a fixed amount of gold. We went off the gold standard because we were printing more cash than we had gold. Right now there is more cash out there than there is gold in the world, even with gold at $1600 an ounce.
And the problem with the draft is that draftees are not like they were in WWII and Korea. They are more like the Vietnam draftees who could not be trusted with anything more complicated than picking up trash. And then they have to be watched constantly. You sure as hell don’t want them working on a helicopter rotor head or fighter engine.
Not on FR.