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.
asshole
He dont deserve a damn dime…sorry worthless magget has sold us off to terrorist and our enimys
This theft from future generations at Obama’s request was approved by RINOs John Boehner and Mitch McConnell in the last minute budget in 2015 for the FY 2016 budget,
Boehner is gone now, McConnell should be next and the first order of business for the next Congress should be to accept US Representative Jason Chavetz’s bill to cap former President’s pension at $200 thousand and reduce taxpayer contributions by earnings, dollar for dollar, just like Social Security.
If congress and the Senate let’s him do that.they should loose all their retirement benefits and their pay for the rest of their term.how long!
This can’t be
About time loyal president let’s all be the same hh
WE The People VETO it
No he does not! We the people can and will take it back. He can not just give himself a pay raise.
good for him, people are letting him do it. this is why i get payed under the table aka i dont have a job and am homeless :’]
not if he’s proved a fraud, then he won’t be paid because he was never eligible to be prez