This is so far out of my league, but I want to give it a try. I read about that in the 1800′s we are put on a Gold Standard for our dollar. Today, that is no longer the case. Our dollar is backed up on the credit worthiness of our country. Would it be more wise to actually have our worth in Gold, where you could actually turn your dollar in for something very tangible; GOLD? Why did we ever leave this standard. When we suffer times like today, there is debate on the possibility that we cannot pay back our bills. Hence, people are taking their investment dollars and turning to other countries, then our dollar suffers and goes down in value. What ever happened to the line, “Who has the Gold makes the rules”?  Perhaps we need to gold. Then I look at the paper and see that copper is more expensive than gold. Dont we use more copper in wiring etc than that we use in Gold. So now we need a Copper standard. Ok, I am a litte crazy here but we need a solid value to fall back on. Just because we are America may not mean we have all the answers for the world.