This modified version is on better ethical and economic grounds. It is dif¬ficult to imagine goods more worthy of government protection than those asso¬ciated with work. The economic challenges to this version are more a matter of degree than principle. At one extreme, government would supply jobs to so many people that government spending drains money out of private markets, which leads to an economic downturn" which leads to more unemployment, which leads to more government employment, which continues to down¬ward cycle further. At the other extreme, government provides no economic help for the unemployed. Even among those who would argue on economic grounds against government directly supplying jobs to the unemployed, there is a strong consensus that government has a responsibility to provide a social "safety net" of economic support. The remaining question seems to be, is this support better provided in the form of jobs, incentives to the private sector to hire the unemployed, or in the form of such payments as unemployment insur¬ance, food stamps, and health insurance?