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.
And this in the same year the social security benefits ….did not get a cost of living raise
Let’s get Impeachment going right now!!!!
Jail for murder
Arrest and prosecute the racist traitor now.
and if our economy totally collapses just how does the buttwipe think he is going to collect it?
Stop this thief.
When he moves to Dubai will he need to forfeit his citizenship and thus his pension? Or is the mansion within the UAE just going to be a “summer home”?
How is he going to get that pay raise, if and when we stop paying into it imho
This, too shall be repealed.
And the fools who voted this ignorant sob into the whitehouse. I ONLY HAVE 1 QUESTION. OF ALL GREAT AFRICAN AMERICANS. WHY THIS SCUMBAG.