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.
I thought he worked for the people ? He’s a fraud and always will be !!
Can you say “satire”? The story is false. Just more propoganda. You might want to check facts before you continue name calling http://www.snopes.com/politics/satire/payraise.asp
He should have to pay back EVERY PENNY he received! How come he was Ever able to even run let alone win as president is beyond me!!!!
He deserves nothing less then ejected out of office without any pay
Execute the traitor
More of his dishonest, self serving actions
Stop this now
This is our money. How is it that no one will stop him?
He doesn’t have the right to give himself a Raise ! Thats Congress job to give your sorry no good no non working Pay !!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
He really don’t deserve it period.he a greedy millionaire.!!