re: I just listened to Mark Levin's Friday podcast and I'm shocked at his position on trade.

None of this is new news. Most intelligent political observers have known about this for years. Bill Clinton is the one who really set all of this in motion and released restrictions on allowing our intellectual property to leave the country and go straight to China ... and when he did we all knew this was coming.

For years prior to Clinton, dating back to even the Carter Administration, China had been stealing whatever they could get their hands on, making knock-offs, and selling counterfeit goods on the black market.

From I'd say at least around 1976 or so, and well into the 80s, China flooded markets with counterfeit records and later CDs. They flooded the market with counterfeit Ralph Lauren apparel, counterfeit jeans, shirts and jackets by the boatloads. Counterfeit watches. Counterfeit colognes. If they could buy it on the open market and reproduce a cheap knockoff they would do it.

Back in the 70s I remember the joke being that the only thing they really cared about looking really genuine and having any semblance of quality to it at all ... was the tag or the label. The packaging basically.

So all of this has been a problem and been coming for a long time.

It's way past due. Trump is absolutely doing the right thing. China is not good ... it's a dangerous country with world domination and Communiism it's goal. They have stolen trillions from us over the decades and consider us fools.

While we worry about things in terms of days or weeks or even months ... things like the stock market or Syria or whatever, China makes 100 year plans and then they execute those plans patiently because they know we'll eventually self destruct on every level ... and we are.

Trump is 100% right ... although our fall to China is inevitable. The next Clinton or Obama will come along and finish the job ... and the Chinese know that. They are jot worried.