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.
Just impeach him and take away his pension and see how he likes it.
LEGALLY HE CAN NOT DO THAT HE IS NOT LEGALLY IN THE WHITE HOUSE. HE IS NOT AN AMERICAN CITIZEN AND NEVER WAS.
TRUMP is not going to be president of the UNITED states. 65 % OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE DO NOT WANT TRUMP IN THE WHITE HOUSE. GET THAT THROUGH YOUR HEAD.
For what?? This bastard needs a bullet in the brain
His and any politicians pay raises should not be allowed to pass unless we the taxpayers vote for/against them….after all we’re the ones providing the funds…. Do any of us get to just change our pay at work?
I understand the cost of living is quite high in the Emirates…..
Stealing is what it is for a disasterous non performance !!!
Can future legislation take it away? ????
Can we kill him now?
Total c**p head have you ever got in the office when he got voted in because he’s black not because he’s smart as he is one dumb$#%&!@*hey man the one he’s with