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.
There are enough Nations in the world that hate him — I do not think it will matter …
Black Privilege.
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scum of the earth
All this approved by the house and senate ????????? Lets tell the WHOLE STORY………………
Real Fucking Nice. Especially when a lot of us are barely surviving
He’s so effing comical! I wonder if he makes out with himself when he looks into a mirror?!?
I think all politicians should only make minimum wage. They get the same wage we do. If we get a raise then they can.
You people need to check your stories before spreading these lies. The raise never happened – it was a spoof story.
We can’t let this pass.