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.
Now if Isis has their way…only congress should be able to give raises to the highest office, he definitely has not earned it and you can ask them overseas….I think they would agree…Congress should have the final word, actually the American people should, anything financial when he has destroyed and destabilized the Country, the world …. as much as he has.
There’s a way to fix that…..
Yea your not in the real world or your on welfare if you think health care is at its lowest cost since the 70s Tim Philpot
Will our congress fund this??????????
Too many blind and deaf sheep…if you listened closely like some of us…we didn’t buy what he was selling…sounded to good to be true…too much about transformation…didn’t like or trust the sound of that word or him…shifty eyes, body language didn’t match what he was saying…would not look you in the eye, avoidance on many issues…what loser…still people falling at his feet and why?…he would not hesitate throwing anyone and everyone under the bridge and he does that often.
Tim Philpot
Your crazy!
Is there no one in congress that dares to stand against Buckwheat and impeach his$#%&!@*
Treasonist crook wake up America how fucking stupid can you be
let’s take it from that$#%&!@*THATS TAX PAYERS MONEY.
Sue him for negligent homicide in illegal alien attacks.