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.
When president Trump has him arrested,tried and hung for treason he will lose it all.
Aldo Rocco from this country or not. If our whole govt did there job We wouldn’t have an issue. Trust me We know how govt is “supposed” to work so back off gracefully
Ralph Blade , Nope, and hes not the commander and chief right now is he. PAY ATTENTION.
That is theft
Everything this poor man does is twisted into some evil nefarious plot by his detractors! Grow up you bunch of unread, unthinking, lemurs! Acknowledge your own party’s weaknesses ( hell, you couldn’t even find a good candidate to run)!
THIS$#%&!@*DESERVES NOTHING !!!
Make him pay for all the vacations him and his free loading family took at the taxpayers expense, I understand they’re being charged for their criminal activity by Judical watch?
what a piece of c**p
greedy
Put the traitor in prison. He will lose it.