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.
Hopefully Donald Trump when he becomes president he will lower this guy’s paycheck lower than any past presidents
He shouldn’t be able to give himself a raise he works for ME I didn’t authorize a raise
FUCKIN$#%&!@*
Soon to be the best paid inmate at Gitmo !
He is nothing but a hood rat thief like all of them. First black president set the bar low for all blacks . They arena plague upon this nation.
TRUMP WILL ARREST ALL THE TRAITORS!!!
He should not get a pay raise
People are going hungry is this country and doing without medicine and this man gets a raise. Sad state of affairs.
Sickening
Excuse my French but the$#%&!@*hole does not deserve an increase. Did the seniors or vets get an increase? No hell no gas prices were going down. BUT GUESS WHAT GAS PPRICES ARE On THE RAISE! This man is pure evil. I hope if this passes that God will let him fall dead in his tracks. If I was not as old as I am and could physically do it I would kill the bastard. I have had enough of this scum bag and his michael.