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.
it’s hard to believe that Americans actually voted this scum bag in office.but even harder to believe that our military and our congress hasn’t removed this communist dictator and traitor to the USA .
Tim Philpot the working class is having to pay for the freeloaders healthcare now…ours tripled in cost because of obamacare…I suppose if you are benefiting from it you Do like it…but what obama did was not Constitutional.
Of course he does…
Nadine Faber well, he did transform America…hardly reconizeable now…our Founding Fathers are turning over in there graves…even though they did foresee this happening.
No surprise this piece of sputum would give himself a raise but not to our seniors! Just goes to show what worthless pieces of$#%&!@*he and all the other politicians are and need to learn that they answer to US!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This is BS – did not happen!
He should be put in a Federal Prison for all the$#%&!@*he has done,to this country and its people.
a raise, are you fuckin kidding me, this guy is the worst president in the history of the united states,
For what? He makes too much already. Give social security a raise and maybe old people won’t have to go to work until they die.
You people are as bad as any racist! A dog could lead you around.