Agreed.  Puerto Rico has functioned as a third world country with a constant hand reaching out for more and more federal aid. They tried to use the hurricane as an opportunity to get the U.S. to rebuild their dilapidated infrastructure.  Anyone who has ever lived in Puerto Rico knows exactly why Congress has never been willing to address the issue of statehood for an island of people who refuse to make the right economic decisions and then expects America to pick up the tab.  When they get their act together maybe we can really offer assistance, but until then the only thing we should give them is tough love.