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.
You son of a$#%&!@*! And my parents could not get a cost of living increase ? May you rot in hell and take your family with you !
This c**p has to stop when they get out of office all they should get is social security just like the rest of the working class!
Black pos .
Where he’s going he won’t be able to spend it !! Gitmo sounds good until judge Jeanine gets done with him !!!!
Question, what would a 12 ga do to that mellon ? I had a dream.
Only if he escapes the trial for treason / crimes against humanity will he get to spend any. His daughters will be homeless and looking for a welfare check. Oh well.
This asswipe has abused his whole term . I will never understand how congress, supreme court, anyone let him get away with all he’s done illegally . Ruined our country, I hope it’s not too late to repair all the damage!
And our Soldiers haven’t received anything for 3 years. You have alienated the Military Mr. President, WRONG thing to do if you’re looking for their support. Why would they want to support someone who won’t or refuses to support them.
I hope when Trump gets in he lowers EVERYBODY’S permanently!! And I also hope he lowers Obama’s more than anyone else’s!
So after all the vacations we paid for, now we should give him a raise. I think NOT!