Efficiency

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When asked whether it was OK to let low-income Americans die, Senator Joni Ernst (R-IA) responded that "we are all going to die."

Ernst was right. We are all going to die. To be human is to be mortal. Mortals die.

Justifying letting people die is a bit of a jump though. That's taking efficiency a bit far, don't you think? The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) may have used this same logic to justify the deaths of tens of thousands of children.

In her dubious apology, Ernst said, no matter. Just accept Jesus, and you don't have to die.

I'm not sure how seriously Ernst takes Jesus, though. He said "whatever you did for one of the least of these, you did for me." I never understood that to mean killing them, or letting them die, so that they could get to heaven quicker.

There's a story Jesus told about a Samaritan who helped a robbery victim who was dying beside the road. The church people of the time decided to let him lie. 

Senator Ernst, it would seem, sees the priest and Levite as the heroes of the story. They were much more efficient about getting the victim to heaven.