Back in the 1700s, the people of Tennessee wanted to become a state, but there was not a lot of action or movement in the bullpen so that Tennessee could transition as a state.
Puerto Rico still has the wherewithal to be a tourist destination.
We've had a history of hurricanes, but none of them of the magnitude that we're seeing Irma turn out to be.
Puerto Rico, within the span of two weeks, received two Category 4-5 hurricanes. That has never happened anywhere. The devastation has been enormous.
Expenditures have gone rampant in Puerto Rico: lack of accountability - total lack of accountability.
As a matter of comparative, the U.S. citizens - the Puerto Ricans that live in the United States - have much better incomes, more than twice as much, participate in the labor force of greater scales, have better results in the education system, and so forth.
