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.
As a lifetime republican. I’m SICK AS N TIRED OF AMERICANS THAT VOTED FOR OBAMA AND THE REPUBLICAN LET HIM BREAK DOWN AMERICA.
I saw all the darkness around him in his first speach when he was running~~~~could miss those horns coming out of his head either, just ask my husband that’s what I saw!
Sick, not worth two cents!
Give him his pension in rat$#%&!@*that’s what he deserves traitor
This is not right!!
OBAMA IS A FRAUD.
he needs to give it back,he didn’t earn it
BLOCK And Set Pay Grade at that of E-2 MILITARY ;Loose the RayBans; You didn’t Earn ’em;;;;;;;;;;
don’t give him any ideas
They didn’t seem to cut the budget for obama family vacations though, did they?