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.
How????????
Congress should block Dead 2
It’s time for a public hanging for Obama and his useless administration of lowlifes.
Now ,give it all to bernie,dumbass
King Obama the First rules by Imperial Whim and Personal Mandate. He uses a phone and a pen. So he can live like a king if he so chooses. We PEONS just pay the bills for the Monarch WE elected to rule over us. WE should be grateful this SON OF GOD has graced us with his presence. 😛
the same morons that voted for him will be voting hillary
because the$#%&!@*stole money from social security again.
So has Congress already approved his request…?
The Congress of the United States has the power to stop him. Its their job to check and balance the Legislative Branch. Congress controls the purse.
Another ( executive order ) they mean nothing, it’s a wish list of an egomaniac. They must have house and senate approval to become law.