well, if the US does have a vault for thier money other than fort knox then its probly filled with IOU's right now. i started to get interested in this the other day in economics class so i did a quick searc and heres what i found. the federal debt (not deficite) is currently 7.8trillion and rises about 1.6billion dollars each day. if that isnt bad enough, in order to pay it off, every american citizen would have to pay about 26 THOUSAND dollars!I dont know about you, but i barely have a spare $26 to spend right now... this year the gov't spent 208B on the interest to those that they owe money to. the top three areas of our spending our social security, dep. of defence, health and human services, and the tresury which includes the interest payments. this is not much info actually but if you wish to find more, type in your search query into your address bar or visit my sources: http://www.federalbudget.com/ http://www.brillig.com/debt_clock/