Setting aside the actual results of Puerto Rico's referendum, which was to join the union… The other colonialist powers in the Caribbean (France, the Netherlan

Setting aside the actual results of Puerto Rico's referendum, which was to join the union… The other colonialist powers in the Caribbean (France, the Netherlands) don't seem to have any problem providing hurricane relief to their Caribbean departments and territories. Only we, the wealthiest country on the planet, can't help our own citizens, a hair over a thousand miles from our shores. American exceptionalism!