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.
Take it away for bad yearly reviews. That what my company does when they dont want to give raises
and the evil cabal called congress will approve it.
We said hell No.
Mike Brown, read the CBO report…… Healthcare cost is that is lowest rate since the 70’s……. Research my friend THEN reply
This sounds like bull s**t
I DON’T KNOW HOW THIS CLOWN CAN GET AWAY WITH ALL THIS C**P HE IS PULLING..HE IS NOT A CITIZEN, AND SHOULDN’T EVEN BE PRESIDENT..PERIOD..HE HATES US, THIS COUNTRY AND OUR MILITARY..AND IF THE IDIOTS OUT THERE VOTE FOR ANYONE BUT TRUMP THAT WILL BE THE END OF EVERYTHING..OUR MONEY, THE ECONOMY, EVERYTHING…WAKE UP..IT SHOULD BE A NO BRAINER….AND THE BONUS FOR VOTING FOR TRUMP WILL BE WE GET TO SEE OBUMMA, HILLARY AND ALL OF THIS CORRUPTED GOVERNMENT PROSECUTED…
HE, alone, cannot do that ! ! ! !
You have to work to deserve a pay raise.
Of course he would. He thinks he is our Lord and Master and is entitled to such.
Got news for him he is not.
No but he can increase expenses to maintain correspondence and other office expenditures, and that’s what he is doing! Also, he can send budget recommendations to House, and so far they’ve approved practically everything this guy wants. Don’t understand it because Republicans have a majority, but guess like Trump says “bought and paid for establishment politicians”! Sadly, seems they have taken away the voice of the American people!