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.
Of course he did it. That’s what the profession of politics is all about–power and wealth. And that is why the problem will never get fixed because it is a perfect racket.
Without a vote from congress he cannot give himself any pay raise.
A piece of s**t
This needs to stop. He needs to be cut off and go to prison
If he gets it he may never get to use it tomorrow heis on flight tonsaudi Arabia, who knows what might happen on that plane? Or in a car?
Why doesn’t congress stop him. Can they all be so weak and stupid?
Yes he is a fraud That’s why I didn’t vote for Obama !! And he does needs to be Impeached!!
where is congress.
But couldn’t give seniors a cost of living raise! They based it on the price of oil! It should be based on prices of utilities, food. Now gas is going up but not our income. He is trying to kill off seniors and gives social security to illegals! The United States of America has the biggest army on earth, THE AMERICAN PEOPLE!
Has the House approved it yet.