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.
Is this for real?
For Life ? Huummmm
Ana Meneses-Ross Really? That’s why they feel they have the right to tell people to rat out their neighbors for buying too many batteries? Is that why they think they can tell people what size soda they can buy?
what a piece of chit.
First off, maybe no one will want to hear one of his speeches after he leaves office. He may not. Do as well as the the Broke Billy. Second, I think he spent all his advance pay on vacations while isn’t while in the White House! Third, he doesn’t deserve a thing!! He didn’t do the job he was voted in to do!
Congress better stop this and now
The fraud isn’t worth a penny a year
Obama you do not deserve a pay raise what you deserve is the American people to have your$#%&!@*arrest and sent to prison for the rest of your miserable$#%&!@*life,as long as you are in office you have the American people miserable is hell , if I was that hated I thank I would go and dig my own grave and put my self in it if I was like you , sick sick sick sick sick sick sick
CEO can do while wants.
no he can not do that he is breaking all laws