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.
No fucking way!
He didn’t get my permission, I do believe we the people, the tax payers pay his salary. Must be nice to give yourself a raise, what a jerk
how does he have the right to do this or who has the money to pay him?
Congress better defund it!
Needs to be impeached and jailed and no Pay ever again!!
Write , email call your representatives and urge them NOT to give Obama that raise….or they may find themselves jobless come voting time !
it wont last$#%&!@*can be flushed down the tolet
He loves to stick his finger in our eyes!
No way
If we only had a CONGRESS!