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From what I gather ray isnt saying that we should tar, feather and chastize all fat people in general. Just those who use thier obesity as a "jump in front of the line-free" card or use thier weight as an excuse to get the placard. My doctor, who I know personally, would never give anyone who was morbidly obese a handicapped placard just because they were overweight. They would have to have a legitimate reason to get one and in fact in the state of Arizona the law says:
An Authorized physician must attest in writing to the DMV that the "Physically disabled person" means a person who, as determined by a hospital administrator or authorized physician, meets any TWO of the following conditions:
(a) Cannot walk two hundred feet without stopping to rest.
(b) Cannot walk without the use of or assistance from any brace, cane, crutch, other person, prosthetic device, wheelchair or other assistive device.
(c) Is restricted by lung disease to such an extent that the person's forced respiratory, expiratory volume for one second, if measured by spirometry, is less than one liter, or the arterial oxygen tension is less than sixty mm/HG on room air at rest.
(d) Uses portable oxygen.
(e) Has a cardiac condition to the extent that the person's functional limitations are classified in severity as class III or class IV according to standards set by the American heart association.
(f) Is severely limited in his ability to walk due to an arthritic, neurological or orthopedic condition.
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