By now it’s clear to even a casual observer that President Obama is fast-tracking socialist legislation, appropriating entire private sector industries, pressing for a plethora of new taxes on producers and risk-takers, and greatly expanding the power and breadth of government.

The net result of these policies, by any reasonable measure, are not designed to get the U.S. economy back on its feet, but instead expand the existing welfare state far beyond its current design.

Because Obama’s agenda is so fundamentally foreign to most Americans, it is only now dawning on the collective voting, taxpaying public that the end-point of these efforts is not a resurgence of economic growth, but a glacial shifting of the morphology of our economic system.

Inherent in Obama’s speeches and unscripted comments is the clear, undeniable notion that the “Haves” must share with the “Have-Nots”. Whether expressly stated, as in the infamous Joe the Plumber comment about spreading the wealth, or in the manner in which he gave significant preferential treatment and reward to unions in the GM acquisition, Obama is operating on a set of principles that have been championed by the likes of Saul Alinsky and his pastor of 20 years, the colorful Reverend Wright.

And Obama is acting fast! He’s using his political currency to push through an agenda that is stated as one thing but in fact is quite another. For example, the Stimulus was sold to the American people as something which had to happen immediately. He spoke of shovel-ready jobs ad nauseum, and how it would put people back to work, stave off a further increase in unemployment and lay the groundwork necessary to get America back on its economic feet.

But less then 5% of the stimulus money has been spent, which prompts the question: If the idea is to act swiftly why is the vast majority of stimulus money not going to be spent for another 18 months? A closer look at how the money has been spent so far and one discovers that states are using it to supplement their individual budget crises, save jobs state budgets could not otherwise afford, and print road signs touting “Your Stimulus Dollars at Work”.

Quietly, and without much mention from the media, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner have traveled to China in a flassid attempt to convince the Chinese that the American dollar remains strong. At one Chinese university, Geithner was actually laughed at by students after making one such statement.

In a fevered attempt to ram through government-run health care, Cap and Trade, and other programs, the result will be a major increase in the cost of living for everyone, hitting the poorest among us the hardest.

So where does all this lead?

 When the only growing sector in the U.S. is the government, when entitlements continue to increase, and given the fact that 40% of the public do not pay any income taxes, can anyone reasonably argue that this is a sustainable model?

When Reagan took office he faced a similar set of dire economic circumstances, and his prescription for recovery was the exact opposite of Obama’s. Reagan said that government wasn’t the solution; it was the problem, and the country went on to enjoy 25 years of growth.

American voters are tolerant but not stupid. What was a murmuring of discontent is becoming a loud, proud and defiant rejection of Obama’s statist policies. Democrats concerned about reelection are beginning to distance themselves from the Great Savior, and poll numbers reflect that Americans now trust republicans more than democrats to handle the economy.

It took a Carter to bring us a Reagan and I am optomistic that Obama will bring about his own downfall by overreaching and making too many bad decisions, as anyone with zero leadership or private sector experience would be expected to do.

Our job is to plug into our local Tea Party organizations, write letters and call our congressmen, talk with neighbors and fight these idealistic, child-like liberals every single step of the way.

The 2010 elections are coming fast. That will present an opportunity to reduce the disparity of republicans to democrats and increase the difficulty of further efforts to dismantle and reshape this great country into an unsustainable socialist experiment.

Make your voice heard. Remember, Obama only received 52% of the vote, and much of that had to do with our mistake of pitting a weak opponent against him.

This will not stand.