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.
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GOD SENT TRUMP TO US TO SAVE AMERICA I WILL SUPPORT TRUMP NO MATTER WHAT PARTY HE IS WITH. I WILL SUPPORT DONALD TRUMP ALL THE WAY IF TRUMP BUYS AN ISLAND FOR HIS SUPPORTERS TO LIVE ON THE ISLAND WITH HIM WITH PEACE HARMONY AND TO BE SAFE I WOULD GLADLY WALK AWAY FROM THE USA GRAB BY FAMILY AND FOLLOW TRUMP TO HIS ISLAND. THIS AMERICAN IS TIRED OF THE B******T CORRUPTION IN THIS COUNTRY. USA USA USA USA VOTE FOR DONALD TRUMP PRESIDENT OF THE U.S.A..2016
The Clinton Foundation is “organized crime” at its finest.
Here is a good, concise summary of how the Clinton Foundation works as a tax free international money laundering scheme. It may eventually prove to be the largest political criminal enterprise in U.S. history. This is a textbook case on how you hide foreign money sent to you and repackage it to be used for your own purposes. All tax free.
Here’s how it works:
1. You create a separate foreign “charity.” In this case, the Clintons set it up in Canada.
2. Foreign oligarchs and governments, then donate to this Canadian charity. In this case, over 1,000 did — contributing mega millions.
I’m sure they did this out of the goodness of their hearts, and expected nothing in return. (Of course.)
3. The Canadian charity then bundles these separate donations and makes a massive donation to the Clinton Foundation.
4. The Clinton Foundation and the cooperating Canadian charity claim Canadian law prohibits the identification of individual donors.
5. The Clinton Foundation then “spends” some of this money for legitimate good works programs. Unfortunately, experts believe this is on the order of 10%. Much of the balance goes to enrich the Clintons, pay salaries to untold numbers of hangers on, fund lavish travel and parties, and give “gifts” to media, potential delegates, influence peddlers, and so on. Again, virtually all tax free, which means you and I are subsidizing them.
6. The Clinton Foundation, with access to the world’s best accountants, somehow fails to report much of this on their tax filings. They discover these “clerical errors” and begin the process of re-filing 5 years of tax returns.
7. Net result — foreign money goes into the Clinton’s pockets tax free and untraceable back to the original donor. This is the textbook definition of money laundering.
Oh, by the way, the Canadian “charity” includes as a principal one Frank Giustra. Google him. He is the guy who was central to the formation of Uranium One, the Canadian company that somehow acquired massive U.S. uranium interests and then sold them to an organization controlled by Russia. This transaction required U.S. State Department approval, and guess who was Secretary of State when the approval was granted.
As an aside, imagine how former Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell feels. That poor schlep is in jail because he and his wife took $165,000 in gifts and loans for doing minor favors for a guy promoting a vitamin company. Not illegal by Virginia Law but he wouldn’t do what Obama wanted and well you know AG Holder…bottom line McDonald was not exactly putting U.S. security at risk.
Sarcasm aside, if you’re still not persuaded this was a cleverly structured way to get unidentified foreign money to the Clinton’s, ask yourself this:
Why did these foreign interests funnel money through a Canadian charity? Why not donate directly to the Clinton Foundation? Better yet, why not donate money directly to the people, organizations and countries in need?
This is the essence of money laundering and influence peddling. Now you know why Hillary’s destruction of 30,000 e-mails was a risk she was willing to take. Bill and Hillary are devious, unprincipled, dishonest and criminal, and they are Slick. Warning: They could be back in the White House in January 2017 Don’t let it happen. Remember, most people are not well informed. You must inform and educate them.
Time for Congress to cut out pendions altogether. Transfer them into social security to bolster it after they dtole $150 billion on Oct. 15, 2015. No secret service protection. Private citizens pay for their own security. No tax breaks. No transportstion subsidies. No salary increases unless equal to social security raises. Every state must pass such laws re federal spending.
Congress get off your backsides and do your jobs
can he spend it in prison ???????????????????????
Never voted for this person and he is rock star and loves it. Yet they aren’t caring one bit for the USA. Sad that the daughters are going to be maybe like them. So if he can get away with it ?? He is . USA is nothing like it use to be and respected not much anymore. SAD
Voted in by a wide majority. Read it and weep
Go cry and MOVE
Give your miserable muslim self a huge raise[for what] and cut military pay and pensions.They only put their lives on the line daily FOR our country while you–you rotten bastard put them in harms way by arming every single enemy of ours———allies of you.
Needs more to feed these two