Was speaking of USA, not USSR. We had/have a better credit rating than they. Otherwise we would not be so far in debt...If the welfare state breaks here, I would not want to live in any of our major cities, and many secondary ones!
Concerning the US, the very act of not being able to feed its people in the cities, is not going to be bullet point on the job performance review of the feds. It will be another reason why they have failed.