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.
his only real goal since 2008
I thought congress has purse strings
I”m guessing there”s just no openings for a “community organizer” ?? What a sick joke on America this has been. and now look at the punchline that the Dems want to use for a following act.
You know his wife must be behind this pay raise!
I don’t live in the U. S. So I just sit back and watch people acting like children, name calling, tattleing……will be interesting to see who you all put in office…….I find this to be a real insult to the American.
As far as obama’s permanent pay raise, is just proving that he and Michelle are money hungry and always will be, st a time when the financial debt be paid or the homeless need help, but there they are putting themselves first.
Creep.
Obama’s$#%&!@*rich with everyone else’s money
Well I hope when Trump gets in there he repeal’s that and everything this POS pushed through G od let’s hope !!!!!
impeach him now and strip him of everything throw him into the gutter where he want america.
You all are a sad bunch of idiots
scum bag traitor