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.
No one will stop him I can assure you!! I don’t understand??! If anyone can please tell tell me !!!
Unfortunately, he plans to close GITMO! He’s even trying to devise a way to give that land to Cuba! How he thinks he has right to give away American owned property is beyond me, but if this “pretend” President can find a way to do it, he will!
Congress holds the purse strings of america. Lets see what kind of congress we have! If they let this slide like everything else, then it IS time to take action against our corrupt government! If it is not too late!
Obama for prison 2017 !!!
This is so true Tom smith..
Tim Philpot and in a sense lowered ss by raising cost of health care and co pays for seniors
No but cost of living in Hawaii (where he plans buy home) is expensive! Even native Hawaiians can no longer to live in HI.
It’s interesting to see how many people believe these articles from this page, when they don’t even site sources, just “Quotes”.
POS POTUS .. CRAWL BACK INTO THAT SHITHOLE YOU CAME OUT OF !!!!
He’s trying to look cool like Putin. Instead he looks like he’s holding a blunt. Lol