Why are there so many Gold-Buyers?

I am 67.8894% sure we ditched the Gold standard a while back and are now on the "imaginary house of cards interwebx credit" standard.
A much better standard.

And that 67% would be correct. We are off of the gold standard, and a while before that, we had a silver standard as well. Some of the "silver certificate" dollar bills are still floating around, and are collectors items.

Now for my feat of memory, while i know for a fact we went off of the gold standard, i am only 62.482% sure it was Reagan who took us off of it. Might have been earlier then that.