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.
Tim Philpot only by idiots
If my wishes come true, and he gets incarcerated, he won’t need any money.
He has done nothing to earn his pay as it is. He is useless. Impeach him now and get rid of him.
More thievery !
Where’s the box on the tax firm that ask me if I want to pay the worst president in modern history more retirement
Awful!!! Impeach Obama!!!
That lousy good for nothing bum has done nothing but hurt Americans h !! Hell no that lousy bastards have stole way to much from us already! When is congress and senate going to wake up and say too much
He cannot arbitrarily give himself a raise…it must be approved by congress ! I thought that this site’s name was TRUTHandaction.org…if this is the kind of truth that you jerks deal in, you are no better than the other lying sites !
Maybe we should take away some of the powers that we give our president because this president has gotten away with everything under the sun and he has surely over stepped his authority as president .
The worst thing that ever happened to America ((( ever $))