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.
JoAn Kitchens McLaughlin – We the People Do Not hvae representation. They approve Obama a raise and in turn will get them one as well. Crooks is all we have in office. Thats why the GOP does not want TRUMP elected. He will expose and stop the crooks that make We the People pay for all their extravagance. It’s time the American People take back their country.
Lance, not only he cut military pay, but military size has been decreased to a number that equals size before WWII. Entire bases have been closed and in remaining bases entire platoons, squadrons, units, have been deleted. As stated, have not seen numbers this low since prior to WWII.
GREED
Sickening, time to take our country back!!!!
yeah, you will never get that kind of money$#%&!@*a community organizer. main reason he allows all the corruption in the government, both gems and repubs, to go on and on.
cancel that he can starve
HE DESERVES NOTHING. ALREADY STOLEN MORE THAN HE WOULD EVER DESERVE IN A MILLION YEARS, s c u m
He can’t without congressional approval
Obama you are a piece of sh-t. CONGRESS DO YOUR JOBS.
Stop this maniac!!!!!!!!