Who's going to build the ladder?

I don't like the analogy, but I played along. I sent the following letter to this editorial in the AJC describing how the government is building the ladder that will get the economy out of its current hole:

In his August 8 editorial (“Rung by rung out of the hole”), Andre Jackson got his metaphor backwards by implying that it is the government that will “get us out of the hole”. No amount of monetary tinkering or Congressional grandstanding to show they are “doing something” is going to build the ladder he’s describing, especially not in an economy as dynamic as is ours. Instead, elected officials and government bureaucrats can do no better than to keep the needed tools and supplies necessary to build said latter – stable money for consumers to spend and businesses to invest – in the hands of the private sector and kindly step aside. Only then can the economy truly return to its feet and get back to making the U.S. the wealthiest nation the world has ever seen, just like it has in every other economic crisis we’ve ever experienced.