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.
Lots of resemblance to Momar!!
We shouldn’t pay any former employees of the government. Didn’t they have a chance to get a 401k or other options?
Where will it all end???? How is it that he is still President? When he should have never run because of his status???
Lance Rosasco…as a government employee (parole officer) under the Bush Jr. Administration I took major cuts in benefits , etc! As for the clothing the girls wear….check out costs of designer clothes that all the 1st ladies and the children wear! This administration is no different than any other! My son was in the military under several presidents and he retired quite well under this administration ! It is an insult to suggest that our military is not strong (size) .
Racists created racism not Obama! Never worked for a living? That is factory rat mentality! I wonder how you would do in a job where you had to use your brain!!!!!
Good , I’ll double it. He deserves it.
Joan, you could jump off a bridge, that might help.
Surprised barry stopped at 18%.
revoke him air rights.
Kate Jeter-Benton you said what! Lmaoooo