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Message:: [QUOTE="C Jay, post: 1613544, member: 13184"]Once upon a time, there were 2 nations that settled a new land. The ones who went south found untold mounds of gold, the ones who went north didn't find squat, and had to go to work. The nation that found all that gold, built great armadas to transport that gold and were considered to be the greatest, richest country on earth. The guys to the north, well they made cabinets, farmed, did a little fur trading, and basically whatever it took to get by. No one paid them much attention. Move ahead a couple of hundred years and we find an amazing thing. The ones with all that gold, they were nothing more than a paper tiger. Sure they had a big army, but there was little to no value in what they did. The folks to the north, they built industries, they expanded trade, and although they didn't find much gold until 250 years after they got there, there was a lot value in what they did. That value, my friends, is the thin air that backs our currency. As far as how much gold is sitting in an army base in Kentucky, Newt Gingrich got it all............ [ATTACH]228435.vB[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]