Puerto Rican Americans are worth more than US$1.8 TRILLION, e.g.: less than an illegal sequence of war crimes and crimes against humanity launched by the Cheney and Bush administration in earnest in 2003 upon Mesopotamia and the Levant in collusion with some very interesting interests, which has now cost far more against the US Public Debt despite being worth less than nothing.

Puerto Rico may be costly, but then, after all, there is a price tag associated with maniacally-unchecked anthropogenic global climate change perpetuated at the behest of a few investors. There's also a cost associated with the wrongful US Federal neocolonial despoilment of the island that began in earnest around 2005. Those chickens are coming home to roost, as credibly and so famously anticipated for so very long now despite all parochial defiance to wisdom and common sense alike.