It truly is a monstrous thing to say, as if saving some money justified murder. He clearly doesn't value human life. Not a good look for a politician. Perhaps worse of all, he didn't even realize how badly saying that would be received. That kind of idiocy would put him pretty early in the eugenics line he suggests.

That's because the notion that every human has inherent value is fundamentally a Christian notion. It was not a feature of even the greatest civilizations pre-Christianity. In fact, the pagan Romans mocked Christians relentlessly for it, calling Christianity "the religion of women and the poor."

As our society rejects Christianity more and more, it is inevitable that more of this will pop up. You cannot destroy the foundations of a house, and expect it to stay standing. Too many people ignore the lessons of history and take the benefits of our civilization for granted. The atrocities of the twentieth century were the result of trying to create "new" and "rational" systems of morality. The same thing happened during the 18th century French Revolution, as well.