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.
only one man has what it takes to undo this mess and some will have to die to put down the uprising…TRUMP—UM====
That sounds like what a dictator would due. …!!!!!
Overthrow Bummer and get Trump in there to arrest him and his party and family.
more b******t
If Obama can do that, then retirees should get a permanent social security raise every year.
Who is the !%, we is
IS ANYONE SATISFIED WITH WASHINGTON POLITICS ?? WE HAVE A CHANCE TO CHANGE IT…….. It is true that the Colorado process as well as the caucus process used in other states was not set up just to stop trump specifically but it was intentionally setup to give the elites control over the vote..However , this time Colorado GOP went way beyond that.. these processes as well as the delegates should be eliminated..for a state to be eligible they should have the simple process of the voters going to the polls and casting their vote…total all the votes and the candidate with the most votes wins.. that is the only fair way to have any election.. the same process should be followed in the general election and the electorial college should be abolished…….Do people actually understand what the RNC , cruz and kasich are saying when they are doing everything in their power to cause a contested convention? They are saying that they do not care what the voters want. Now , if they are already telling us that they don’t care about what the voters want do you actually think that they will care what you want once they get in office? Of course not. Just as they are trying to put the elites and their own wants ahead of yours now , you know damn well they will do the same thing once they get in office.. They don’t even care if hillary gets elected because it would still be government as usual in washington.. It is entirely up to the RNC if they want to win the election or not..Their blatant disregard of the voters wishes is nothing new but has just been a lot more visible this time..The gop elites openly doing everything in their power to destroy the front runner as well as cruz openly trying to get delegates to go against the will of their voters just emphasizes how crooked politics really is..All this delegate, super delegate, caucus, state convention, electorial college, etc., etc., is all about the elites trying to manipulate the election…The candidate with the most votes , p**s on the crooked delegates , should be the nominee..If the RNC does not recognize this and abide by the wishes of the people that cast the votes for the leading candidate then they can kiss their party good bye…The vast majority of Trump’s supporters will write his name in if necessary and if the RNC screws Trump out of the nomination we will vote against any GOP candidate for any office..Yes, RNC, we are 40% of the republican vote plus the dems and independants that trump can pull over that will vote against any republican on the ballot for any office.. Let’s see you win anything without those votes… We really don’t feel that we have much to lose because the GOP has been laying down and giving obama everything he wanted anyway.. So , RNC , if you want to go ahead and destroy your party , go for it..If you are not going to listen to the voters then we need to start a new party anyway..
Here is what happened, quietly, on January 1, 2016:
Medicare tax went from 1.45% to 2.35%
Top Income tax bracket went from 35% to 39.6%
Top Income payroll tax went from 37.4% to 52.2%
Capital Gains tax went from 15% to 28%
Dividend tax went from 15% to 39.6%
Estate tax went from 0% to 55%
A 3.5% Real Estate transaction tax was added.
Remember these facts:
These taxes were all passed solely with Democrat votes.
Not a single Republican voted for these new taxes.
These taxes were all passed in the Affordable Care Act, aka Obamacare.
If you think that it is important that everyone in the U.S. should know this.
There are many millions who don’t yet, then pass it on.
If he can do, Trump can undo
This is illegal. Only an act of Congress can do this.