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.
If DT actually become 45, he should do his own Executive Order to dismiss All of Lame Dork AIC
bull we’e had to incur for these long 7+years. He sure doesn’t need any raise because this pompous A$$ has never done a damn think for the USA citizenry aside from fanning the flames of racism, bigotry, lying, and being culpable in the deaths of four white Marines!
Where the Hell is Congress, They should not allow this to Happen, if someone can be the Supreme Ruler, We dont need Congress !!
another thing for Trump to undo
There is one way to STOP BO !!
Joe Tullar Brent Tullar while veterans go homeless, it seems he and Bush are heartless
Shut this traitor down now hang him today or prison would be nice
Congress will repeal it.
The arrogance spoken through this unilateral and outrageous pay raise is another manifestation of a physcopath who thinks he can do no wrong and simply cannot recognize truth. Quite honestly, it would be more shocking if he had not made such an absurd move with this massive increase in salary! This administration is apparently familiar with the$#%&!@*propaganda rule: the bigger the lie the more believable it is
According to slopes this is not true… Can’t stand this clown but not cool to be spreading false reports…
http://www.snopes.com/politics/satire/payraise.asp
Is this a selfie? The flag lapel pin is on the wrong side.