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 in return screws the Elderly and our Military
We need to get this as Sholes
Sexy look for the Pres!!! 😉
When need to get this$#%&!@*out of office now and throw him in jail
Take pay away from soldiers and line his pockets , Lousy Human being!!!!
But people on Social security couldn’t get a measly 10.00 a month because it wasn’t in the budget. Stupid p***k
That’s the bottom line. He didn’t reduce the debt, he didn’t bring employment up, he did create new health care (was it worth the time) (he enjoyed it because it was forced on us) and anything he wanted to do was done because “he is the President”. Now we get his parting shot asking for an 18% raise for former Presidents. Unabashedly unashamed, as is the case of another former President.
BS BS BS.
Doesn’t have the authority!
Figures no end to the abuse