I've come come to realize that alot of the reason there is so much rubble and dead technology isn't because they can't rebuild anything, it's because they are being lazy and ;woe is me' about a Post War world. I mean, granted it's hard, but whole settlements complain about their problems, and yet they have to wait until one man like the Fallout protaganists show up to save them, if one wo/man can save an entire region, if more people did that, they'd be making a push in the right direction. The Post-War US needs more people with the drive to create a new world.