Obama is America's most expensive ex-president:

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[h=2]Obama is America's most expensive ex-president: Former POTUS wants $1.1 million for next year including half a million dollars for office space[/h]

Former President Barack Obama's D.C. office space has pushed him past all of his predecessors when it comes to his post-presidential office space paid for by the government.

 

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[h=1]Obama is America's most expensive ex-president: Former POTUS wants $1.2 million for next year including a half-million dollars for office space[/h]

• Ex-presidents are entitled to an allowance for an office and staff
• Former President Obama's request surpasses George W. Bush's by $100,000
• Office space in downtown Washington
• 8,000 feet of office space plus a pension
• Jimmy Carter spending only $457,000
• Carter doesn't get government health care because he served only one term
• Obama supplementing his federal payment with speeches, book deal

 

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Former President Barack Obama's D.C. office space has pushed him past all of his predecessors when it comes to his post-presidential office space paid for by the government.
Obama's $1,153,000 budget request for 2018 surpasses former President George W. Bush's by $100,000, the Washington Times reported.
The request is also $200,000 more than former President Bill Clinton – who maintains his post-presidency office in Harlem.
All living former presidents could learn something from President Jimmy Carter, whose budget is just $456,000, with an Atlanta-based office.

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President Barack Obama has a $1,153,000 budget request for 2018 for his post-presidency offices

 

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Former President George H.W. Bush is requesting $942,000. The information was contained in an analysis by the Congressional Research Service.
The big ticket item running up Obama's costs is his Washington, D.C. office, costing $536,000 in annual rent, and filling 8,198 of prime Washington, D.C. real estate.
The Obamas elected to remain in D.C. while Sasha Obama finishes school, and bought luxurious home in D.C.'s Kalorama neighborhood.
Clinton has 8,300 square feet in Harlem. Carter's office expenses carry rent of just 115,000, according to the report.

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Former President Obama gets office space costing more than $500,000 in rental income paid by the taxpayers under a law governing former presidents

 

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JUST PEANUTS: Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter spends less than half what his successors do on rent

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CAME IN SECOND: President George W. Bush is requesting about $100,000 less than President Obama is for office expenses

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President George H.W. Bush has offices in Houston

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INCLUDES RETIREMENT PLAN: President Barack Obama walks with former presidents, \\ George W. Bush and Bill Clinton at the dedication of the George W. Bush presidential library on the campus of Southern Methodist University in Dallas

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HOW'S THE RENT UP HERE? Then-presidential candidate Barack Obama stands alongside former President Bill Clinton in Clinton's Harlem office during a lunch meeting in New York, on September 11, 2008

Carter's relatively short time in Washington – he spent just one-term there and hadn't worked in the federal government before he got elected in 1976 – help keep his costs down, in an unusual feature of the report.
Since he didn't serve five years, he doesn't get government employer provided health benefits, though he presumably gets Medicare.
The law governing benefits for former presidents is the 1958 Former Presidents Act. Modern post presidents are able to command hundreds of thousands of dollars for speeches.
Barack and Michelle Obama reportedly inked a book deal worth more than $60 million after leaving the White House.

 

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Compare Mr Obama wanting $1.2 million a year and President Trump works for nothing.

 

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[Willie99]

typical democrat, needs a government check to survive

Democrats question the motives of wealthy Republicans that get into politics, but don't look twice at Democrats who got wealthy in politics (they just get everything assbackwards)

 

[BleedingPurple]

typical democrat, needs a government check to survive

Democrats question the motives of wealthy Republicans that get into politics, but don't look twice at Democrats who got wealthy in politics (they just get everything assbackwards)

I understand where you are.coming from but is this really an issue? I mran Bush doesnt need money either and he was only 100 k less

 

[Willie99]

I understand where you are.coming from but is this really an issue? I mran Bush doesnt need money either and he was only 100 k less

I'm just pushing buttons in this thread, but to answer your question, yes it's an issue

How can you be concerned about the motives of a business billionaire (who really doesn't need money) while you don't look twice how middle income status career politicians become multi-millionaires in politics? Who is more likely to be politically corrupt?



Having said that, I don't believe most of this is an issue to the vast majority of Americans. But it is an issue that gets a lot of play, because it's a narrative being created and sold by the criminal colluding corrupt democratic media

 

[Dave007inVegas]

typical democrat, needs a government check to survive

Democrats question the motives of wealthy Republicans that get into politics, but don't look twice at Democrats who got wealthy in politics (they just get everything assbackwards)

That's the first thing that came to mind. He's been a leech his entire life.

 

[BleedingPurple]

I'm just pushing buttons in this thread, but to answer your question, yes it's an issue

How can you be concerned about the motives of a business billionaire (who really doesn't need money) while you don't look twice how middle income status career politicians become multi-millionaires in politics? Who is more likely to be politically corrupt?



Having said that, I don't believe most of this is an issue to the vast majority of Americans. But it is an issue that gets a lot of play, because it's a narrative being created and sold by the criminal colluding corrupt democratic media

fair enough