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.
If it passes congress then everyone of them need to be replaced immediately. They are up for reelection every two years, it would not take to long to clean house.
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POS
You deserve nothing
Is that legal? Not that it seems to make any difference.
POS Muslim traitor.
I do not think that is legal the House of Representatives has to authorise it in a spending bill.?
Common we all know is a thief but paying him self i don’t think do
He’s a great guy. Will be remembered as this country’s worst President. And yet we have people praising him. Go figure.
OK CONGRESS NOW IS THE TIME TO STEP UP AND DO YOUR JOB AND VOTE NO TO ANY RAISES TO ANYONE IN CONGRESS OR ANY PRESIDENT OR FORMER PRESIDENT!!! NO MORE FREEBIES FOR GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES!!!!! Write your. Congressional representatives and complain!!!!