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.
So Obama did this all by himself? Don’t think so!
TRUMP Will Just Take it AWAY…
If Trump or Cruz wins then they should take it and his presidential pay away for all the debt he’s put America in
HOW CAN A LOUSY PRESIDENT GIVE HIMSELF A RAISE?????????????? THE CONGRESS SHOULDN’T EVEN BE ABLE TO DO THAT, IT IS CRAZY THAT THEY GIVE THEMSELVES RAISES, LET THE PEOPLE DECIDE IF THEY DESERVE ONE!!! AND STOP THE PAY ONCE THEY GET OUT, IT IS IDNSANE!!!!!!!!!
Needs a bullet
His fall will be great because God is watching and is not happy about Israel and how Obama treated his people. and then there’s Iran. A biggie
If they grant Obama a raise. Guess who will be getting a raise next ? Not us.
He took big pay raise because he knows trump is coming to white house and he declines salary, so obama balanced it. He spoiled black americans image.
WISH SOMEONE WOULD GO NUTS AND KILL HIM .
POS!!!