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.
Lying THIEF
He can’t give himself a pay raise, that has to be done by Congress. Actually his pay should be cut by 200% so he actually owes the taxpayers money. He should also have to repay the taxpayers the 100 million he has stolen from us for his lavish vacations. Time to remove this POS from our White House and return it to the people.
Come all you dems
Look closely at your
Party like I did after
35 years ,I was loyal to you and you tuned on me and now I’m turning on you , you have let us down for to long .
Really, it should be $15.00 raise
he is the destroyer, thank God hes almost gone, lets hope we get a good change this election, the country will never recover with 4 more yrs of obama policies.
Thaddeus, how about we start with the fact that he had a team assembled in the Situation Room and Hillary was on the phone with Chelsea discussing details of the attacks in Benghazi yet both ignored all pleas for help! Plus, other countries offered to send military troops and planes, but they refused or ignored every offer. Source: “Thirteen Hours”! Facts: Supplied by young men who rescued remaining surviving Americans at Benghazi compound, who fought repeatedly attacks from Libyan Militia that Hillary and Obama supported! Read the book and it you can’t manage that, go see the movie! The young men who fought there said details in book were accurate!
How in the hell can he do this? Congress stop this…………
That’s what you get because you didn’t and don’t pay attention to how they live!!! Look at any community!!!!
IF AMERICA WOULD “IMPEACH” THIS (MUSLIM) THEN HE CANNOT RECIEVE A “PERMANENT PAY RAISE”
Thank you JoAn, I was just going to ignore the liberal fool, but you did a great job of destroying him