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.
This article is nothing but another Right-Wing Obama-Hater’s LIE.
http://www.snopes.com/politics/satire/payraise.asp
What is bestowed by the pen can be removed by the pen … ….
You don’t have to stop this alleged “Obma Pay Increase” because it never happened. It’s just another fucking right wing lie.
http://www.snopes.com/politics/satire/payraise.asp
When u idiots voted this guy in , u should have looked first at his name , then his record , community organizer, idiot , liar ,dope head etc , not his fault it’s yours not only once but twice , just shows how ignorant white democrats are ; ; queers 4%,blacks 20 %,mex17%,others 5% ,white 55% duh idiots !!! ; so white America are u going to b and idiot this time around , probably , but it is ur privilege.
He couldn’t do this on his own. What does congress have to say about it. Did the do the late night deal and give themselves a raise at the same time and just not telling us about t yet?
Tim you are an idiot. I LOST my healthcare coverage after Kasich, a Republican, EXPANDED medicaid. So employers just quit offering coverage. I was told to apply for caresource with my government run job and family services, only to find i made too much money. my wages didnt go up, just added a new and expensive bill that congress, well the DEMOCRATS in congress, FORCED me to buy. The ONLY people this law helps are those on public assistance that others pay the bill for, and insurance companies, who are GUARANTEED customers now. Maybe if i wrote a million dollar check to the DNC the government would force you to purchase my products…
Donald Trump For President the only honest one He will make America great again
Yea, so. What’s the point off this post. Just to p**s us tax payers off?? Nothing you or I could have done to prevent this. Just like every other action of this traitor!
And my main point – i had a broken eye socket and my reconstructive surgery cost 23,000 back in 1987. In 2009 i broke my collarbone. My bill was 36,000. so health care is at its LOWEST cost?? Not sure because i graduated BEFORE common core, but 36k is higher than 23k. Health care costs have risen. Taxpayer subsidies to insurance companies have risen. The only thing that has dropped is the services insurance will pay for.
I never refer to him as President. I won’t even read the attached to his name.