Think you are safe from getting stomped by the boot of Big Government because you have a disability? Think again:

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Arizona is defying a federal order to eliminate apartments for deaf seniors at a housing complex built specifically — for the deaf. …

A 2005 federal study found that the U.S. had virtually no affordable housing for the deaf. So the federal government helped build Apache ASL Trails, a 75-unit apartment building in Tempe, Ariz., designed specifically for the deaf. Ninety-percent of the units are currently occupied by deaf and deaf-blind seniors.

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What our federal overlords give, they can snatch away — on the most ludicrous whim.

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But now, the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development says Apache ASL Trails violates civil rights law — because it shows a preference for the hearing-impaired.

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Insane? Of course it’s insane. But what can you do about it when you are 90 years old, broke, and deaf?

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“A preference or priority based on a particular diagnosis or disability and excluding others with different disabilities is explicitly prohibited by HUD’s Section 504 regulations,” says a HUD memo about the project. “There is no legal authority contained in any of Apache Trails funding to permit such a priority or preference.”

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Ideologically obdurate idiot tyrants of this stripe are currently consolidating total control of the healthcare system.

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HUD is threatening to pull all federal housing aid to Arizona unless it limits the number of hearing-impaired residents to 18 people.

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If Arizona knuckles under and limits the number of deaf people in the deaf housing complex enough to please the federal bean-counters, next they will discover that there aren’t enough lesbians of Eskimo descent living in the complex, providing another opportunity to punish one of Obama’s least favorite states.

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