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.
He should be paying back Government Assistance for NOT doing his job. Let Soros pay him.
You people saying he doesn’t support the constitution needs to be impeached etc… Read the constitution, there is a part that says we have freedom of religion and I’m pretty sure that extends to the president. So who cares what his religion is. You wouldn’t say this c**p if a Christian president helped Christian refugees would you?
AND WHO IS PAYING FOR THAT?????? GET THIS GUY OUT NOW!!!!!!!! IF CONGRESS WONT ACT OUR MILITARY MUST TAKE THIS GUY OUT!!!!!!
Good for you. Be glad there is freedom of religion… Regardless of which you choose or who you are. Funny how many Christian religions there are all claiming to be the right one… What if the Muslims are? After all, Allah is God, only in a different language.
Or when there is a shortage of gas they drive Cadillac SUVs
See how believing lies from truth and action is destroying this country? This story is not true, not even close to true, far far away from truth.
Utter horse pucky, bologna, and as real as the eggs in a McMuffin.
The Easter Bunny is more real than this story.
Betty, you sweet soul. This story is not true.
Guess he needs traveling money when he flees the country
THE BASTARD WAS BORN IN KENYA, NOT QUALIFIED TO BE POTUS. “ALL” HIS PAY SHOULD STOP WHEN HE IS OUT OF OFFICE.
The story is bogus. He cannot, and did not give himself a raise.