Price of a Life

'But people will die!'

That's what some shout whenever anyone proposes cutting government spending.

An audience member at a town hall shouted it when Iowa Sen. Joni Ernst said Medicaid shouldn't cover illegal immigrants.

Ernst responded with an obvious truth: 'We all are going to die.'

The audience groaned and booed. The Nation magazine said her 'cruelty and sarcasm might cost her her job.'

Why? Ernst …