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.
Remove the entire Obama cabinet. Start over I think no one should serve a life term. Unless in prison.
We are more likely to see our Lord’s return before we see a change in the government.
Don’t give him any ideas that will be next
Don’t forget seniors got to raises on SS either
Kate Jeter-compared to what
What else do you expect that’s only thing he’s done sence he President
Doesn’t Congress do that? Not Obama?
How can this happen ? Does not congress have to vote on this? How can he constantly overstep his authority? Their are 3 parts to the government, NOT JUST ONE!
If he’s sneaking it in the budget hope someone’s paying attention!! The bill to cap the retirement at 200,000 is best!!!
Obama is like a lot of his kind . Hideing be hind their dark glasses