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.
Lori Averill the country would be in better shape if we had a real president doing thier job.
like my grandpa use to say, “a leopard can’t change his spots”. just another person of color wanting more free stuff that they don’t have to work for.
IMPEACH NOW.
Apparently…. King Obama has spoken!!! He wants more money for himself, so he TOOK it!!!
Hey, America!! Don’t you think it’s time to REMOVE this$#%&!@*hat from his “job” acting like a dictator?!?!? He’s done MORE than enough to screw over the country and every citizen to it!! Prison should be his next home, and I see no more reason to wait for that move to happen!!
Congress gave themselves a raise this year, yet told peopleo, social security that there was no cost of living increase, so no raise in social security. I want to give myself a raise for not doing my job and shutting down my employer. Congress doesn’t care if that means we suffer… No mail, no checks, social services etc. Yet the military still has to work… Maybe if they wouldn’t have, they may have seen what a bad idea that was
Same as Bush did for 8 yrs, but without going to war, hunting the wrong person responsible.. Hussein wasn’t responsible for 911, Bin Laden was. Not finding WMD, oh yeah, Bush also managed to take a country with a surplus of money and manage to put it trillions in debt. Gave billions to the already wealthy with government bail outs…. Need more
Then Bush should have been for declaring war without an act of Congress… Ooops, guess you forgot that one didn’t you?
Funny how Congress is the money handler and gave themselves a raise last year
Congress doesn’t deserve what they get paid, yet keep giving themselves raires for what… Not reading bills they vote on and shutting down the government? Try something like not doing your job, and asking for a raise… Wait if you don’t do your job you won’t have to worry about asking because you will be unemployed
Wow… Yet when Bush Sr was president He was selling weapons to enemy countries. Not to mention training Bin Laden. I love how short the memories of Republicans are. Makes a dementia patient seem to have a photographic one