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.
This must be stopped
Scumbags like you.are ruining this country.
He is not worth one single penny of it. I will pay for his upkeep when they throw him in GITMO.
No truth exists from this Coal-Black Genetics-cursed Afro Jungle Hoochy for which CIA could NOT NOT DNA-link any white USA ancestor like this$#%&!@*roach had alleged per British Intel. Advisor, Barrister -Michael Shrimpton’s recent news report to the news folks. Also Shrimpton Should have acces to actual Kenya birth record… Click to view Shrimpton’s report—>>: http://www.westernjournalism.com/british-intelligence-advisor-obama-born-kenya-1960/#bQW8WZs29qAQFhK1.97
Did everyone in congress pass away? Just asking!
i bet your fat
Can’t collect in prison
Yet no cola for social security recipients, how is that justified? A public servant above the public! Can anyone explain or understand this madness!
This Muslim$#%&!@*never worked a day in his life, just lives off of the American people. He is a foreigner born in Kenya raised by a man who hated our country.
I don’t think so amen we the people say no to that amen