I personally can accept the idea of support for IDA only because I believe that the restoration of the right to buy. sell and hold gold is so vitally important that this is a relatively small price to pay if one will calculate it in terms of the annual replenishment rate. namely. $375 million a year. which represents about one onehundredth of 1 percent of our Federal budget. Mr. Chairman. when I was teaching I had a colleague who was a refugee from Hungary. and he told me that he was on his way to Siberia to a Siberian prison camp. and he was able to buy his way free by passing off to one of his guards a watch which. coincidentally. happened to be made of gold. I would only suggest to some of my colleagues that as the song says. "Freedom is not free." I think it is a very difficult thing to establish a price tag on the restoration of a fundamental right that has been denied our citizens for. lo. these past 40 years. I acknowledge that there is a price tag here that some will find insurmountable to swallow.