Doesn’t this episode prove that there’s no gold reserves in Fort Knox?
I mean, if we had any gold, we could sell some of it to pay the social security checks Obama is worried about, right? (Aside from the fact that there is $2.2T coming in in tax cash annually to pay them....)
But nobody in government has even suggested selling the gold, because there isn’t any.
...and 10% foot 66% of the total federal tax receipts. I say, cut the EITC and all the other freebies to people who don't work, cut unemployment benefits to the original 13 weeks and tell people they need to work to survive. If you truly can't work, prevail on your church or other charities for help like you used to do before the 1930's. Enough of the freeloading on the productive members of society.