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.
Reminds me kinda of Idi Amin the late Dictator in Africa.
Well, my apologies to black citizens, but he is no more than an uppity$#%&!@*
Lol republicans are hilariously stupid
I’m in the military. My pay has never gone down. It never will go down. Thats right-wing propaganda for you there. The budget has been cut and if you spent as much time as I have digging into where the budget cuts actually are, YOU’D FUCKING AGREE
The entire government sucks. It’s not just Obama
The whole picture, top to bottom is fucking ridiculous. From president to someone running for mayor, the goal is the same. They want power. They want the lavish lifestyle. Get rid of politicians. We don’t need em, replace our government with scientists and engineers! Replace them with people who majored in economic studies! Replace, replace, replace. The entire system is broken and it’s time to do some spring cleaning.
But as far as blaming Obama for all your problems that’s about the same as blaming your boss for firing you for being late again and again. We the people allowed it to get this way through complacency and acting like sheep. It’s OUR country not some fuckface law-makers.
Wake up. Take it back.
Give Social Security and Vets a raise
……what say YOU. ..representatives of the people of AMERICA??? Anyone in Washington speaking out?? …I can’t hear you!!
TRUMP. .TRUMP. .TRUMP!!
He needs it to pay off another country to take him in. Well if we as the United States ever take a stand against this bull$#%&!@*
Of course…greedy…scoff everything up…and make your getaway!! Traitor going going gone soon. Yes! AMERICA WILL SURVIVE your goal of you as leader and all powerful aka the one. Good riddance. America will never forget you and 9/11.
SHOCKER!!