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.
But he can claims expenses to run post-President (not that Obama was ever a President) office – personnel to handle correspondence, office, etc. – have increased and can increase expenses, another form of income for his and his arrogant wife’s extravagant lifestyle!
Will not increase his salary, which will require approval; but will increase the $50,000 expense account to cover his and arrogant wife’s supposedly office, correspondence, etc. expense! Total B.S., but he gets away with illegal, traitorous activities continually!
He won elections. Bush won court battles to be pres. Who was illegitimate?
He actually proposed increases, the repubs voted down 9( yes, 9) veterans bills
JoAn Kitchens McLaughlin the Libyans did not want our troops, or any troops, on their land. Also the year before Benghazi congress had slashed the embassy budget by some 300 million
Nope
Give him prison, then depot
Treason
Hope He spends it All in that Grand Lake of Fire, obama is the Anti- Christ!!
Execute this P.O.S. for treason and eliminate any benefits he might b eligible for.