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.
Take him to court, he is not above the law.
we the people must have GRIP get rid of incumbent politicians, the replacemets would vote the will of the people because it can and will happen again and again there’s term limits
Thief
Since when did a president gain the power to give himself a massive pay raise before leaving office?? Would not a pay raise have to come through the Congress and be voted on and approved?? So he can just throw a number out there that he wants and ‘bam’ it’s his, right??
Congress needs to take it back !
worthless POS
He should the people if he should get it of the USA
how can we impeach obama?
Doesn’t that have to go through Congress ?
The masses pay taxes and incur massive debt and do nothing to stop the rip offs and rampant corruption. They deserve what they get. Millions are ripping them off daily and some get away with unbelievable fat lifestyles. All you can say is that the Americans deserve it. Until it all starts to fall apart.