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.
Mr Obama… you will be relieved of duty soon………….. along with administration….
He needs shallow burial near a croc. PIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
wow jon someone with half a brain i bet your a obama supporter
He does not deserve a dam pay raise
Sly bastard.
Nothing is permanent ! If it can be done, it can be undone !
Can you say payroll deduct …thats what happens at my place of employment for poor work performance .
Someone got the wrong presidenton his little meme. His king, obama is the absolute worse president in American history. Not to mention a most likely illegal president. History already knows obama as a liar, cheat, and fraud.
You Sir need to look at Obama’s record and update your photo! Let’s see”: He does not support our military; he maligns our brave law enforcement officers and sends 3 of his top guys to the funeral of a criminal; he traded five dangerous Islamists terrorists (who have all rejoined the battle to kill infidels (that’s us) for a deserter, then invited his hippie parents to the White House; he spent billions visiting “low level drug offenders” at a prison in OK; he plans to release all terrorists from Gitmo so they can return to battlefield to kill brave American military men and women; and he has spent multi-millions on extravagant vacations while the average American struggles to feed his family; he and John Kerry made one of the worse deals in American history selling out America to a nuclear Iran – so bad that he took his deal straight to Iran bypassing Congressional approval as required by law! The night of the murderous attacks in Benghazi, Obama had a group assembled in the Situation Room and Hillary was on the phone with Chelsea, both detailing the attacks as they happened but each ignored all pleas for help (Read “Thirteen Hours”, facts verified by men who fought there. Obama’s list of failures is so long, not enough space to list them!
He can use it in prison. He’ll have lots of friends