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 dam surprise
Why???
Yet cuts military pay three years straight, he’s done all he can to bankrupt America. He’s made America week down sized military, open boarders, brings Muslims to our country, demoralizing our soldiers as well as are police force. Race batted so they won’t try and impeach him. Supply Isis with arms while trying to disarm American’s he’s done everything for the Islamic state nothing for the United States!!! Treasonous
Silly kids. The Koran is wild? And the people that wrote it… It was started by a christian who disagreed with some aspects… Like protestants. If you haven’t read it or at least done some research don’t speak on it. Look at it this way… I’m sure many religions think the same about Christianity… The difference is they don’t try cramming down everyone’s throat.
As for most terrorist groups… The US is responsible for most of them. We supplied them weapons and training to defend themselves back in the 80s. They have since evolved to where they are now.
And he cut pay to our military put this SOB in prison where he belongs.
You folks need education. Not a damn thing anyone, Charly excluded, is true. The level of ignorance and propoganda spoon feeding you folks absorb us what is destroying this country.
Perhaps that should be done for all of Congress. No pay, benefits etc until we see results. Would keep them from blocking each other, they might actually read what they vote on etc
Vacations? Really? Saw plenty of those with Bush
Don’t worry about it, that will be changed after a new president is elected, he will get his pay cut like the rest of us
The country would be in a better shape of folks understood how governments work. The constitution setup 3 branches. If you actually looked at what congress did in the last 10 years, you would be much wiser as to the culprit.