Fat Cats

Many people argue over the term limits of the president. I don’t think that the presidential term limits need to be changed, but the Congress needs to have a term limit. The fact that someone can continuously get re-elected however many times they want is unfair and doesn’t let change come easily.

In Congress, slightly over half the members are Protestant. However, considering that Protestants consist of more than 3 different practices for different parts of the religion, then Catholics (at 30%) are the majority of Congress. Jewish religion is represented by about 9% of the Congress members. Mormons make up almost 3% of Congress, while Buddhists and Muslims only represent .4% of the Congress population. Some religions aren’t even represented in Congress.

Although there is a separation of church and state, wouldn’t it still be fair to let everyone have their national population percentage of their religion also represented in the Congress? Some bills that pass or do not pass have a lot to deal with religion, like abortion rights. We should be able to have Congress set to an amount of terms so we can get new people in every so often to represent their own religion.

Another reason we need to keep adding new people to the Congress and taking out older people is because racism isn’t as prominent today as it was a while ago. Some men in the congress are still against blacks because that was the time they were raised. Doug Lamborn, born in the mid-50s, just recently had called Obama a ‘tar baby’. He said being associated with Obama was like being stuck to a tar baby. Although he claims he’s not racist, someone who didn’t see people based on their color would never refer to Obama as that.

Jim Sensenbrenner, born in the early 1940s, had actually used a stereotype for black women to describe the first lady, Michele Obama. He said that she “lectures us on eating right while she has a large posterior herself”. Many people know that a stereotype of black women is that they have ‘ghetto booties’. For a congressman to refer to her as such is incredibly rude and can definitely be taken not only stereotypical, but also racist.

Mark Neumann, born in the early 1950s, had said that gays are unacceptable and he would never hire a homosexual because they are “promoting their agenda”. Louie Gohmert, also born in the early 1950s, is against the ‘don’t ask don’t tell’ policy and thinks homosexuality is just “perverse, social experimentation”.

Often these kinds of congressmen are referred to as the ‘fat cats’. To elaborate, they are the idea of the big fat white man who can’t give change a chance and is stuck in his ways. This isn’t how the congress should be. It should be diverse and open minded and trying to change to better the society. Being against colors and religions and sexual orientations isn’t helping society. We’re all equal so we should all be represented in that way. We shouldn’t be represented againt.