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.
Not if we stop him
HOW ???THIS IS CALL LOVE TO YOUR SELF….HE CAN’T CALL ITLOVE FOR HIS COUNTRY ……CAN HE ??????
He is so corrupt! This lazy, islamic president doesn’t deserve the money he has been given in the last 7 years
nothing is permanent – and it could be taken away… what a doof.. he thinks he is invincible…
The cap on pensions for former presidents should be $0. They’re no better than anyone else. If I leave a job I stop getting pay from that employer, why should the president keep getting paid after he leaves office? Also, there should be a two term limit for all political office holders.
Can’t has to be okay by Congress
REALLY?
He should have given himself a copper jacketed lead vitamin to his Fucking forehead!!!!
Doesn’t that raise have to be approved by someone?
really, he should be paying us for what he has done to AMERICA…