I liked a lot of what was in the speech, but not the "Bridge to Work" program.

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Selfish businesses will use this program to get free workers for eight weeks, then fire them and hire someone else for no pay. Yes, the workers would be getting unemployment insurance, but they would get that anyway. This would be just one more giant step in the quest to depress workers' wages. The Republicans want to eliminate the minimum wage but now Obama is proposing a program where they won't get paid anything at all with no guarantee to ever get a paying job. It's a bad idea.