[LibertyAndJusticeForAll]

If the shareholders knew half of what is cooked in the books of a corporation they would never okay anything, but a great deal is hidden from them by clever accountants. Just the so-called lobbying, which is just a bribe, is one example.
Here are a just a few links from respected sources on these issues. Perhaps they will prove enlightening:
(the visa racket)
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/phyllisschlafly/ps20030602.shtml
(Kissinger - the national security risks)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/947266/posts
(William Hawkins - the national security risks)
http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/comment-hawkins062503.asp
(another national security risk)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/922087/posts
(an example of how OPIC and Ex-Im use our tax money as foreign aid - offshoring)
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=26159
(Steve Farrell on "free" trade with China)
http://www.newsmax.com/commentarchive.shtml?a=2000/9/13/082713
(Paul Craig Roberts on Globalism and Adam Smith)
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/paulcraigroberts/pcr20030212.shtml
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/paulcraigroberts/pcr20030305.shtml
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/945266/posts
(illegals)
http://www.latimes.com/features/printedition/magazine/la-tm-immigration29jul20215420,1,7044553.story?coll=la-headlines-magazine-manual
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/gate/archive/2003/07/07/asparks.DTL
http://www.fairus.org/html/04105611.htm
http://www.fairus.org/html/04165904.htm

[Alberta's Child]

If the shareholders knew half of what is cooked in the books of a corporation they would never okay anything . . .

I agree with you. Which is why 95% of the people who are invested in the stock market today have no freakin' business being there.