Not Enough Gold

The US does not have enough gold to pay off it's debt.
The US has about 22 million pounds of gold.
It would have taken 80 million pounds of gold to pay the debt in 2011.
The national debt was 14 trillion in 2011.
It is thirty five trillion today.

It would take just under 2 billion pounds of gold to pay off the US national debt.

There is not enough gold in the world to pay off the US Debt.