What do you think is inside Fort Knox?

[SallyMander]

My sweetie and i drove across Kentucky today to visit family. We passed close to Fort Knox, and started wondering... is it really filled with gold? Or has it all been liquidated by this point, and it's just kept up as a facade? Just what does a country with $9 trillion in debt have in its national treasury?

As a kid i always sort of pictured it like Scrooge McDuck's pad... ;-)

[JeffR]

1. Dick Cheney

just a guess.

[AlCzervik]

2. Rofl!! that must be his "Man safe"

[JeffR]

5. As SallyMander pointed out

chances are the building is uncontaminated with money. Plenty of room for Darth's heart specialists, shotguns and special "Last Throes" souvenir memorabilia.

[SallyMander]

8. LOL - courtesy of Wikipedia

apparently there are 4570 tons of gold there... but i have no problem picturing the Dick sitting on top of it and cackling!

[JeffR]

10. I'm shocked

I really figured it contained a bunch of IOU notes and not much else. If only Darthco could use it as an oil depot, if the hapless morans could just figure out how to keep the Iraqi pipelines free of sabotage.

[musette_sf]

dammit you beat me to it n/t

[robinlynne]

3. a bible?

[H2O Man]

4. Vine Deloria Jr

explained that the US government broke treaties with the Lakota, killed hundreds of innocent people, invaded the Black Hills, dug up all the gold they could find, carried it off to Fort Knox .... and buried it there.

[tularetom]

6. All the gold has been shipped to Paraguay

awaiting the arrival of the chimp in January 2009.

Remember how Scrooge McDuck used to dive into the money inside his giant vault? Had a diving board and everything. I used to LMAO at those comics.

:rofl:

[SallyMander]

7. here ya go

Here's the actual facility -- way less cool

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Bullion_Depository

[Auggie]

9. James Bond and Oddjob

[Faygo Kid]

13. Ha! My thought exactly. "I don't want you to talk, Mr. Bond. I want you to die."

[TahitiNut]

11. United States Bullion Depository?? 4,570 tons of gold bullion.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Bullion_Depository
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/facility/fort-knox-depository.htm
http://www.usmint.gov/about_the_mint/fun_facts/index.cfm?flash=yes&action=fun_facts13

[ret5hd]

28. IOU 4568 tons of gold bullion...signed, GWB

[RedG1]

12. all in exile: 90 year old Ferdinand Marcos...88 year old Reza Pahlavi (Shah of Iran)...

maybe even 78 year old Yasser Arafat...or Ken Lay?...and even Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein <giggle>

[SallyMander]

Well, at least they have enough for a game of hearts

:rofl:

[Bitwit1234]

14. The gold is probably all cleared out by this administration.

[Disturbed]

17. Tons of Gold & JFK's preserved body.

Just a wild guess.

[uppityperson]

15. Jello. eom

[pitohui]

16. dick cheney[s bachelor pad EOM,

[superkia]

18. I would say cobwebs probably.

I thought I read something that said that no one is even allowed to do an inventory of it, so I'm guessing it's not there. Maybe they have housing bricks spray painted or something.

[hootinholler]

19. The lost ark of the covenant?

Excalibur?

A grail shaped lantern?

Cobwebs spelling Impeach Hoover?

-Hoote

[stop the bleeding]

20. Sister Cleo?

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[Hoof Hearted]

21. A herd of Knox?

But are they Yoked or Yoke free?

[SallyMander]

22. plural = knoxen???

:evilgrin:

[Gabi Hayes]

35. box>>>>boxen? goose>>>>

goosen? "I saw a flock of goosen."

ever seen Brian Regan?

[southerncrone]

23. Dick Cheney's Liar.

[Howardx]

24. tanks n/t

[doc03]

25. IOU's

[warren pease]

26. Jimmy Hoffa n/t

[Whisp]

27. Fort 'Whose There'.

[SallyMander]

31. LOL!

:thumbsup:

[lpbk2713]

29. Osama and Saddam's WMD's

Rove told Cheney to wait until October '08 and then make the info public on a Friday afternoon.

[ThomWV]

30. There is over 4X tons of gold in jewelery in India than there is in both Ft. Knox and NY Fed.

[Deja Q]

38. Well, their blossoming middle class will have no qualms handing it over.

:P

[Lex1775]

32. I don't know how true it is...

But according to Aaron Russo's "Freedom to Fascism" even the Federal Government has no idea if there is any gold left in Fort Knox. If I remember correctly (and I could be mistaken) his film showed that the Federal Reserve was given control of Knox and has refused to allow the Government to see what is inside of it ever since.

[IDemo]

33. Canned food and bottled water

[Swamp Rat]

34. An IOU from George W. Bushler and Dickhead Cheney

[Deja Q]

36. Odd Job

Of course, as he died in Fort Knox, he may look more like this:

[kedrys]

37. 5000 metrics tons of macaroni & cheese

Since the $ is not pegged to the gold standard anymore, there's no reason to keep gold around. And it would explain why institutional cafeterias never run out of m&c. :P

[SallyMander]

40. That reminds me of the Barenaked Ladies song

maybe that's where they keep their stash, now that they HAVE a million dollars!! ;-)

[jwirr]

39. An IOU.