You’ll have to trust me on this one… but a couple of years ago I sensed there was quickly coming a day where people would be publicly and openly treated as second rate citizens because they were overweight.

There has always been some sort of sentiment that overweight or fat people are not quite as “good” as the thin, but I knew the time was coming where this sentiment would become main stream and popularly accepted.

By the way, I am overweight. I am working on not being fat, but I have struggled with weight the majority of my adult life.

Recently New Jersey Governor John Corizine attacked his gubernatorial challenger Chris Christie for being overweight. Corizine’s campaign ran an attack ad on television that accused Christie of “throwing his weight around.” Although Corizine firmly denies that the commercial is not referring to Christie’s weight, anyone with some sense about them can clearly tell the New Jersey Govenor is lying.

A day is coming when the Governor Corizine’s of this world will have their way and make overweight people second class citizens. Where I live in South Carolina, a state representative proposed a statistical formula similar to the B.M.I. be used so that overweight people who work for the state would pay more for health insurance. My sister-in-law works at a hospital where her insurance premiums will increase if her weight goes over a certain number.

I guess President Obama really does have his hands full with health care reform. Soon, public sentiment may be that overweight people don’t deserve health care.