Yeah, I read about that in a Time (cover story I believe) article a while back. They are F-ed up over there.
The article also wanted us to send them more money. Screw that. If they want to screw themselves to death, fine, just don't do it on my dollar.
"It is a duty certainly to give our sparings to those who want; but to see also that they are faithfully distributed, and duly apportioned to the respective wants of those receivers. And why give through agents whom we know not, to persons whom we know not, and in countries from which we get no account, where we can do it at short hand, to objects under our eye, through agents we know, and to supply wants we see?" -- Thomas Jefferson (letter to Michael Megear, 29 May 1823)