I get where you are coming from. I'm also on government assistance and yes I should be working, but the problem with that is we get a good chunk from the gov't that last a month for us.

The reason why my wife and I are on gov't assistance is because we're deaf and also because we have a hard time finding a job due to discrimination. I went to college and graduated with Bachelor's in I.T. but unfortunately none of the employers want to hire me. I've applied to over 700 jobs and went on maybe 3 interviews so far.

Right now I'm probably considered too old and probably too white to work at a D.E.I. company and I have yet to start my career since graduating from college.

I've had a job but the problem with that job I was working at (at a retail store fixing computers) is that the pay wasn't great and I've had ONE single pay increase in 5 years. I even applied to become an assistant manager, but home office said because I'm deaf, that is impossible for me to be one due to my inability to speak verbally with the customers.

After 5 years, I had to quit because we were expecting our child and given our financial situation, it was impossible for us to live off my income. We were even struggling to live off on my income before the baby came. While my wife is deaf, she also can't work due to some other physical issues so I'm the only one capable of working.

Because of that, that would mean I have to get two, maybe three jobs to be able to support my family. The gov't assistance we get monthly, pays off everything we need to pay per month plus food and at the end of the month, we would be almost broke but at least we're not broke after the 1st week or two, if we had to rely on my income from my previous job. I would estimate the amount we get per month from assistance equals two jobs, maybe three "blue collar" jobs? It's a real sad state we are in right now.

Right now I would love to work as I've always envisioned myself working for a corporate, servicing and maintaining their infrastructure and all but like I said, I applied to over 700 jobs and none of them want to hire me, despite my co-workers from my recent job saying I will have no problems landing a job because I'm too good at what I do. I even got awards commending my performance (4 years in a row) and apparently that isn't enough to prove my worth with the companies I've applied to.

Discrimination is real and it's a long story for me to get into. I can PM you if you're still interested in learning more about this but it really pisses me off that I can't work in my dream career field because I grew up with computers (since 7 years old and I'm in my 40's now).

Even I'm not the only deaf professional struggling to find a job in the corporate world, a lot of my friends from the college I attended, are deaf and they also are struggling to find jobs due to discrimination. This is why I see "Diversity, Equity and Inclusion" as a bullshit gimmick to show that they're woke. Sure, they can hire people in wheelchairs but they won't hire deaf people and blind people because it would be too much for them to handle.

I know you said you understand those who are physically incapable of working but for me, I CAN work. The problem is the $$$. I've been told I should be working but when I explained our financial situation with $$$, they understood why I wasn't looking for a job because it's not financially sound.

This is why I voted and support President Trump because he's the one who can fix this shitty economy we're in, on top of everything.

Yes you do have an excellent point on people being too lazy and live off welfare while they should be working because they're disrupting the balance of the economy. I've seen some people posting on social media, showing their receipt where they bought a lot of food (about a thousand dollars worth) and still have $2,000 leftover for the month. We do not even get food stamps so how tf are they getting food stamps?! Illegal aliens and uh... people of the darker complexion comes to mind on the reason behind this.