Irrationally Pessimistic about Corporations

Here's a letter to a DC-area radio station, WTOP:

During today's 1:00pm hour you played a clip of a listener who is "livid that Americans aren't up in arms against the devastation that corporations inflict" on us.  This gentleman's anger was sparked by the BP oil spill.

I have little sympathy for BP, it being a firm that has often feasted at government troughs.  But some perspective is now very much needed on the costs and benefits of corporations.

Consider that the latest estimated cost of the...