Freeper economics

the Heritage Foundation is pushing for the US to sell the gold in Fort Knox. That's just crazy enough for Freepers to decide it's just not crazy enough:

Yorlik803 knows first they came for the gold...

I was told that one part of Obamacare is banning private ownership of gold. Is it true?
Hitler and FDR both banned private gold ownership.

Dick Bachert yearns for the gold standard, cause that was the last time we didn't have hyper-inflation, I guess.

Why “sell” the gold when fedzilla can just keep printing FRAUDS, destroying their value and screwing not only the nations holding US paper but all the rest of us with the same hyper-inflation.

broken_arrow1 thinks the gols has already been sold!

I think Ron Paul knows there isn't any more gold left at Ft. Knox...he is just trying to bait them into admitting it.

Jonty30 also claims a conspiracy:

What leads anybody to suspect there is still a substantial amount of holdings of gold at Ft Knox?

There’s a reason why the Federal Rrserve doesn’t want to be audited.

sten knows the real problem is that liberals love debt:

if they allow the gold to be sold (assuming it’s still there...), then the progressives will do everything they can to sell it all.

then put us deeper into debt

DO NOT allow this.

Mariner has a well thought out plan:

This is one of the dumbest ideas I have heard in a long time.

We should DEFAULT on the debt and issue a new currency back by that gold.