Where does the Constitution authorize the feds to erect these shrines?
Sometime or sooner the American People need to WAKE UP and see that God is our Protector and Provider and man’s Government is our servant limited by the Constitution.
From the article, it sounds like the government funding is from the State of Illinois. How is this bankrupt state going to be able to handle the $224 million expenditure? What a joke.
"Who pays for a presidential library?
Both private citizens and taxpayers. Before any bricks get laid, a private foundation is created to raise the money for the both the building and an endowment to run special programs and exhibits. In order to keep former presidents from erecting another Great Pyramid in their honor, the government requires that the bigger the square footage, the bigger the endowment. Once the building is dedicated, the library is turned over to the National Archives and Records Administration, which runs it, paying for both the staff, such as a director and archivists--who are federal employees--and much of the maintenance."
I'd like to see the list of his contributors to that endowment. Obama's foundation started in 2014. His foundation got a 7 year rent-free deal from Chicago if they would house a branch of the Chicago Public Library there.
According to a 2018 article: "The OPC - Obama Presidential Center - Opioid Procurement Center will not include an official government-run National Archives and Records Administration presidential library.
More info here:
Obama Foundation makes unique library deal for Obama Presidential Center
Probably the same kind of unique deal he got from Tony Rezko.