"People keep talking about the role of government in helping people.... but a lot of the credit for helping people recover from the storm should go to businesses."

"It's all too easy to implicitly exclude businesses from our mental category of those who help people."

(Why? Because they're driven by profits? Is that worse than being driven by votes?)

It might be better, because businesses have to offer something that moves you to part with your money. With a scheme of taxing and spending, government detaches the process of handing over our money from our thoughts about whether we think the benefits are worth it.

And by the way, businesses not only help people, they are people.

Back to the first link (which goes to my son John's blog):

I can think of many ways that businesses helped me get through the past 5 days, when the power was out in my apartment and my workplace....