Mr. President. I would like to bring to my colleagues attention an article by Ben Wattenberg on the recent passing of economist Julian Simon. Dr. Simon. who I had the pleasure of meeting. was a great lover of freedom and a strong advocate for free markets. He was a pioneer who presented important research showing the benefits of legal immigration. His research also demonstrated that the ratibnale for the type of population control practiced in many places in the world is misguided and harmful. In other words. human beings are not problems to be solved. Such positions never won him popularity contests among certain groups. but as The Washington Times wrote of Julian Simon: "His forecasts about trends in resource availability. pollution and other effects of additional people have been completely borne out by events." A fitting epitaph.
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