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.
I find it difficult to comment lately. This country has been screwed up so completelly, that it isn’t my country as I know it to be. everything is twisted, We now have dumb as a rock government leaders. I’m so upset, that I want to cry. A president that has wrecked everything he has touched while stealing from the people. The simple thing that government catering to Islam, selling our children down the river, installing Shariah Law. I want to go home.
Those is outrage, And Congress is to blame.
They better stand and say no
WHY CAN HE DO THIS WE SHOULD VOTE ON ALL PAY RAISES IN GOVERNMENT TAKE IT FROM HIM HES NOT ENTITLED TO IT
that should not be legal
Obama is one of the less wealthy President’s. Maybe he’ll not have the book writings the Clinton’s did!
Well let’s see what did he do? Does he now get two buckets of chicken a day and three watermelons?$#%&!@*that worthless$#%&!@*in his ugly$#%&!@*old lady in there too Mom girl fucking kids
come on congress, do your job and impeach, imprison and get rid of this imposter
The ins and outs of “how to live off the taxpayers” on presidential welfare for life, …the real obamacare.
Outright theft !!!!