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.
Call your congressman and senators because all Monetary issues like this must be approved by them. Watch for the new budget for 2016, that’s where it will happen if it happens.
Maybe Trump can rescind this as well as all his other illegal “executive orders”!!
***ack the ripper.
How can he get a check for life when he didn’t work for it. Another cover up
PUT HIM IN JAIL BANG
Your a sick sack of BS….
DID NOT DESERVE RAISE NEEDS TO BE VOIDED
cutting military pays the last three years and giving himself a big raise, thats the obama integrity plan, all about me, and the girls twenty k dresses, what a lowlife.
If you voted for him, shame on you.
Only wish he and the arrogant Michelle were moving to Dubai! Yes, taxpayers are required to provide he and the arrogant Michelle a lifetime salary, expenses, and Secret Service Protection! Unfortunately, he plans to move to one of the most expensive states in the US – Hawaii! And, believe me the Hawaiians do not want Obama and his family there! Know this because my son-in-law (career AF) is from Hawaii, still has family there but native born Hawaiians cannot afford to live in HI – only visit occasionally.