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.
He can’t do that! Has to be approved by Congress! Of course, THEY will sit back, rubber stamp it, and go on their merry ways! He is as crooked as they come, and THEY are as lazy as they come!
Impeach or deport ..!!
ONLY THE PEOPLE CAN STOP HIM
Congress how could you let this peace of$#%&!@*Muslim a pray raise! SS, is running out, the vet,and this country in Dept up to its$#%&!@*thanks to that thing you call president! You all are Peace’s of c**p! BC
If this is true, why can’t his stupidity be stopped? Unbelievable.
But somehow there’s no money for social security?
Ok y’all I just figured out why Aldo Rocco is so for Obama he isn’t even from America, he’s from southern Italy and another foreigner that’s most likely either already getting or looking to get a free ride off of the American taxpayers. Of course he’s gonna support someone that’s going to give him a free ride at the expense of others. Aldo until you work and pay taxes in America you are NOT entitled to have an opinion nor does our constitutional rights cover people from other nations that don’t have a living status in this country.
No supprise….he is a taker also
He needs to be fired…not a pay raise.
While cutting the pay for the 3rd year in a row for military service members. He’s great though.