President Obama has gotten used to living high on the hog, at the taxpayer’s expense and doesn’t want to stop his lavish lifestyle after he leaves the White House. He sought to increase the amount of money available for the federal government to spend on former presidents in advance of his White House exit.
In the 2016 and 2017 fiscal year budget requests, Obama put forward increases in appropriation expenditures of former Presidents. Specifically, the 2017 budget proposal is almost an 18 percent increase in appropriations for former Presidents and he had success in an increase in 2016.
Obama will be a former President, so his budgeting is not about his concern for Presidents Bush and Clinton, but rather an opportunistic plan to increase his pension after he is no longer in Washington DC.
So many Presidents go on to make profitable lives after the White House, writing books, speaking engagements that there does not seem to be a need for tax payers to subsidize former Presidents, if their own wealth is substantial enough to support them for the remainder of their days.
Read how Obama’s self-given pay raise clashes with conservative thought regarding The Former Presidents Act, on page two.
But cut GI’s salary
He should be given the death penalty for what he has done to this country!
He takes from everyone. And gives to himself. Take all his say and throw him in prison.
Do Americans not see this man is a leach and bum..
He is on Welfare now!
After he gets out of office an honest head of the DOJ will be appointed and the investigation will begin.
WELL SURE HE HAS TO KEEP THOSE VACATIONS GOING.WHEN HE IS OUT OF OFFICE THEY NEED TO YANK EVERY THING FROM HIS$#%&!@*HE HAS NOT EARNED S**T
And no one stopped him.
He needs to be hung!!!
He should be took care of the rest of his life in PRISON!