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.
Will Obama’s corruption never end? I want him impeached, found guilty of treason, thrown out of the country, stripped of American citizenship, and NO Taxpayer MONEY going to him whatsoever.
Please tell me he isn’t going to give himself a raise. With his job performance he should really give back all the money he hasn’t earned
Thius isnt right he has screwed the country financially and now plans to walk out with a raise for leaving the country devestated? Any and all that vote in favor of this need to lose their seats next time their up for office.
In the last times: people will forget about God and be into money and lawlessness. These things are happening on a worse case right now than say 10 years ago. Pray for our country. But I think it will get worse as the Bible says so. We are protected by Jesus and the rapture will come soon my friends. Keep your heart towards Jesus and trust in God and not towards this terrible world
Wrong Wrong Wrong !!!!
No politician should be able to deside their pay, it should all be a referendum and the people deside and it is for that politician and resets if another is elected to that office
Not true!!!
Hey, he fulfilled his dream, to sucker America to make him filthy rich and support him for the rest of his life, all while he destroyed what the nation stands for and tried to have terrorists take over the usa. Clever, no just extremely evil
No.
Paul Ryan do your job and put an end to this.