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.
s.o.b. p.o.s.!!!!!
Needs to be shot now
How can he do that without the permission of congress?
PIECE OF$#%&!@*. You break America and you want the WORKING PEOPLE WHO DONT VOTE FOR YOU TO GIVE YOU A RAISE . YOU HAVE A LOT OF BALLS .
It is so very hard not to hate him.
Fire his$#%&!@*now and take everything he has stolen away from him.
Sorry low life evil idiot.
No, but he can increase expenses required for his & Michelle’s business, correspondence expenses, etc. and that is what he is doing – thereby giving the Obama’s more taxpayer dollars (and they don’t have to account for how they spend that money)!
Fire him. And take back all his pension and give it to the military.
Scumbag slimeball