Auburn, Maine - 2nd Congressional District Candidate Jason Levesque released the following statement regarding President Obama's proposal to spend $50 billion on another stimulus plan:

"What are we on now, Stimulus 3, 4? All this spending is not helping our economy it is harming it even more. The original Stimulus package cost a trillion dollars, promised to create jobs and it has done nothing but put us in debt and creates a massive cloud of uncertainty for businesses who don't know whether to grow or hunker down and wait for the next tax hike to pay for all this.

"We must stop spending or our economy will fail. That is not 'fear mongering" as some keep throwing around--that is true. We cannot spend our way out of a recession. Some will argue that this spending is good because it's for roads and transportation costs. We are past those discussions. We simply do not have this money to spend. As a matter of fact, the money from the original stimulus isn't even spent yet, so if this were so important to create jobs, why not just use that money for it. Wasn't that what Mike Michaud and others claimed that money was for?

I have to ask, why propose this now? It's election season. Let's make no mistake about it--our leaders wants to spend 50 billion dollars to save their political careers. This is a PR stunt on the backs of taxpayers. But taxpayers are paying for it...so they aren't buying it." --Jason Levesque