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.
No!!
It’s past time to put a stop to all this giveaway
Permanent jail sentence…
Stop stealing the taxpayers money, not worth the time of day
Impeach & deport!
He has a pay raise while cutting the military and their salaries! And still raising our debt!
You can see how he took money from troops and senior citizens for himself. Another polk in the eye to Americans.. Theres not an ex president that needs this money, They have all mooched off the system for too long. They get a business expense up to a million dollars a year each. We are bleeding money… Cut these leaches off.
Nancy Hundley Vanotti , You might have known that your comment would bring from under their rock two trolls.
WORTHLESS QUEERMULATTO BASTARD !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
HE NEEDS STRIPED OF EVERYTHING JUST GIVE A ORANGE SUIT SEND HIM TO KENYA