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.
He will get his someday!
There is NOTHING that requires Congress to honor this, nor do the American people have to accept it. Still, “We, the People” will sit back and do nothing about it!
Scumbag!
I hope Donald Trump can take it away. He should not make more than a sitting president. Do you know what Donald Trump will make, that is right Nothing. Exactly what obama should make. Piece of c**p no good lying pig.
He deserves nothing. He is a sorry traitor that hates america. Greedy jerk!!!!!
Nese Blackshaw That is why I NEVER capitalize obama’s name!
Stop paying him all together
He does not deserve a pay check at all, he has failed his job and he has squandered billions of tax payer dollars, mostly on his lavih vacations and traveling for so called fund raisers!!! He deserves prison for what he has done to our great nation!!
He should be arrested & forced to repay all that he’s been paid for the last seven & a half years. He earned nothing.
Wish somebody will put a .223 in your skull cap. Fuckin hate you and you racist pig wife