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To: John W

Enough of this crap. Trump needs to tell the American people who this “Obama” guy really is.


21 posted on 02/19/2017 1:53:14 PM PST by SpaceBar
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Every official action, official speech, is to prime the pump for big buck donations to existing Obama's tax-free foundations (two that we know of). Valerie jots it all down....and ....bingo....he's got another fund solicitation letter ready to go.

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Valerie must be busy as a beaver....transcribing all of Obama's get-rich-quick presidential "words of wisdom" remarks into fund-raising letters for his tax-exempt foundations and billion dollar library.

Americans demand to see fund solicitation letters coming out of Obama's tax-exempt presidential foundations and his Chicago library fund.

Americans demand to see Valerie's emails, snail mails, land-line bills, cell phone bills, fed-ex bills, wire-transfer lists, postage bills, office supply bills, offshore account numbers, etc, etc, etc.

<><>Demand to see WH comments used to forward US policy being regurgitated in fund solicitation letters.

<><>Americans demand to know if US govt policy is being wrongly used....in an effort to raise tax-free money for the money-hungry Obamas.

43 posted on 02/19/2017 2:21:05 PM PST by Liz (Coulters La: the MSM's delay in repo rting a perp means the less likely its a white Christian)
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Obama Abused His Office To Give Himself A MASSIVE Pay Raise… FOREVER!
The Political Insider | 3-18-16 | Charles Kosar / FR Posted by afraidfortherepublic

The Congressional Research Service reports that for requests for both 2016 and 2017 fiscal years, Obama's proposed federal budget would expand funding through the Former Presidents Act. In 2017 alone, Obama wants nearly an 18% hike in expenditures… $588,000. That means $3.865,000 in appropriations will be available to spend on former Presidents! The 2016 proposed budget includes an additional $25,000 increase.

The Former Presidents Act, enacted in 1958, provides living former presidents with a pension, office staff and support, funds for travel, Secret Service protection, and mailing privileges. It also provides benefits for presidential spouses. Currently, former presidents are awarded a pension equal to the salary of cabinet secretaries, which totaled $203,700 for the 2015 calendar year and was boosted by $2,000 for the current calendar year.

Critics of the act argue that it financially supports former presidents who are not struggling. Many of them, alternatively, have gone on to profit from writing books about their time in the White House or delivering paid speaking engagements.

Former President Bill Clinton, for example, earned $132 million for delivering paid speeches between February 2001 and March 2015, according to an analysis from CNN. Clinton received $924,000 in taxpayer dollars last year by way of the Former Presidents Act.

Republicans in the House and Senate have introduced legislation that would cap annual pensions for former presidents at $200,000. Additionally, the bills would cut each pension by a dollar for every dollar the former president earns over $400,000 in the private sector in a given year. The measure was approved by the House in January with bipartisan support.

"It's pretty simple. You want a retirement and pension, it's there. But if you're going to go out and make enormous sums of money, then you don't need taxpayer subsidies," Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R., Utah), who introduced the bill in the House, told ABC News in an interview. "The former presidents are making gobs of money speaking and writing books, more power to them, but that doesn’t mean they need more taxpayer dollars on top of that," Chaffetz added. "It's embarrassing that they take that money."

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CONTACT CONGRESS HERE: http://www.contactingthecongress.org/

Demand Congress stop lavishing tax dollars on rich ex-presidents.

46 posted on 02/19/2017 2:24:16 PM PST by Liz (Coulters La: the MSM's delay in repo rting a perp means the less likely its a white Christian)
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