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.
And where is social security cost of living allowance raises. Oh that’s right you gave that money to Iran and Cuba. Great job destroying our country you f..ING$#%&!@*
Ftn
THE SUPREME COURT SHOULD STOP HIM FROM THIS RAISE HE GAVE HIMSELF. THE OTHER PRESIDENT DIDN’T GET A RAISE FOR THEIR SERVICE. WHY SHOULD HE GET A RAISE? I
Trump will do what’s right! Obama standing trial for treason!!
Stop him.
IMPEAcH THIS BASTARD AND HE WONT BE ENTITLED TO ANYTHING
Like he deserves anything.
Congress better act to stop this egotist t**d
And I am not for Obama, Trump, Hillary, or any other dip$#%&!@*running in this election cause they all suck,
I am an American, 3rd generation, born in the US, served in the military, like the 3 generations before me. I pay homage to my maternal grandmother’s home as “where I am from” since see passed recently. You have a problem with that? Every damn person commenting in this forum are from somewhere else, every damn one of you is an immigrant in one way or another.
Taxes? I have paid my taxes. The interesting part, as a soldier, you kinda pay yourself during your enlistment.
And fyi, civilans run the military. Congress and the president make the determinations of how the military will be used, be it “war” or one of the hundereds of “conflicts” the US military has been engaged in since WWII
all the while he and his party still screws our military out of benefits and pay