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.
Undeserving basturd
No one I know with a job has lower Health Care Costs. They’ve all trippled with deductibles through the roof.
Trump will nullify this, along with most EVERYTHING little o has EVER signed!
No stop this now!
DISCUSTING! He is worried about the 1%. He is one of ty hrm. See if he gives it back or finds a way to keep our money.
“Restrain”?There is no reason for Obama to give himself a HUGE raise for when he leaves the White House. I am disgusted with DC and there decadence. These people live like Kings and Queens and have no boundries when it comes to self endulgence and the taxes WE have to give. They were elected to SERVE the CITIZENS of the Greatest Country on Gods Green Earth, The UNITED STATES of AMERICA. The Congress and the Senate must return to the CONSTITUTION of OUR Country for guidence. Obama should have been stoped years ago. Don’t give me that hog wash about him being black and so he could’nt be empeached. Obama is HALF Black. A person who does not serve the American people as he should must be fired. He has only thought about himself and has been helped by his co-horts to bring the United States to her knees. Selfishness abounds in DC. I just hope there are some lawmakers who will stand with the American people. Please identify yourselves.
Congress needs to put a stop to this evil thug. He has not earned what he gets now or what he has cost the we the tax payers sicne he got free government housing.He is not worth 1 red cent.
You wont be collecting it long
Pos a huevo
We need a massive grave to put this$#%&!@*in with Hillary and Bernie and the White House staff.