Is Gravel the only Democratic Candidate that will tell it like it is?By Heidi Neel

On June 3^rd the Democratic Presidential candidates gathered in New Hampshire for their second debate. When pressed by CNN’s Wolf Blitzer on fiscal issues, only the former Senator from Alaska, Mike Gravel, seemed to understand the gravity of our federal fiscal fiasco. Check out what he said at Messagejury.com:

MR. GRAVEL: I want to point out that the comptroller general of the United States invited all the presidential candidates to come in for a briefing. I went in for a briefing. He said there was only two other people that came in for a briefing. What the briefing -- he told us is that we have a fiscal gap on the order of $50 trillion. And you're hearing all this money's going to be spent to do all these great things? My God, don't believe a word of it. Follow the money.

… Listen. They've been raiding the Social Security trust funds of $200 million a year, and they're all involved in this. Now, what do they say about it? You balance the budget by raiding the Social Security fund of $200 million a year? And they're doing it now!

An editorial in the The Fort Wayne News Sentinel identifies Gravel as the only Democratic candidate brave enough to mention our huge unfunded future obligations for Medicare and Social Security. It says, “Candidates are more comfortable making promises about tax cuts or universal health care. But voters deserve answers about what the next president would do to sustain Social Security and Medicare without sticking future generations with the bill.”