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.
Yes the people can stop this and his escorts with the s.s. we do not have to pay this asshat at all… he was the biggest joke perpetrated on the American people .. it just takes a law suit and after the NAME it’s got to say ETAL… and that my friends is as such ETAL= FRIENDS /ASSOCIATED ETC… we can bury him in whirl wind of something he’ll never get out of… and there are MANY LAWS TO CHOOSE FROM… get my drift…
Firing sqaud
Did the cost of living go up?If so where’s the raise for social security??
Faye Garoian It will take a Revolution and it’s coming.
Yet you’re on a computer/smartphone posting to Facebook……. Must be a full time Trump protester! Lol
Can’t he gave it away
It will all come out in the wash
Really??? That$#%&!@*wants an 18% raise for destroying the country?
I’m on a firefighter disability pension and I’ve barely made a 1% raise since 2009!
He can kiss my$#%&!@*
The only this he should get is a long jail term!
where is our congress an d what are they doing