Every Public chooses how to spend it's collective wealth. There is a much more complicated version of that truth, but for now, let's just keep in mind that people have overcome every institutional and beuracratic paradigm that has come before.
The United States is filled with many people who think our land and peoples are threatened by outsiders (or from within, but we quickly associate those insiders as quacks or having been affected by outsiders). Statistically speaking, as near as I can figure, most of the people who think this the most, vehemently, are also far less likely to know any facts or even events going on in the world around them. By some magic property of algebra, therefore, I presume to state without proof that the above implies that we are in fact not under threat. Near as I can figure, the United States gets a housing bubble bursting, like an economic pimple on our big powerful face, and the whole world goes for a tailspin: China makes legislation, the E.U. takes a hit, and even places like Dubai suddenly look like the monopoly guy when he's shrugging with his out-turned pockets empty. Nobody is going to come and hurt us, except maybe the stray suicide bomber, but they can't really take out more than a few hundred of us, or thousands in the most extreme case I can think of - so destroying any sizable chunk of the United States at that point would literally take thousands of suicide bombers, or tens of thousands. Good luck getting that many humans to do that. I'm sure the T-Party has the right idea on how to create that kind of zealot.
My point is, no one is coming to get us, we decide what happens here, and the big awful bullies that we think the hate-mongers are, are so dependent on us that even a little zit sends them all flurrying and panicking. They are the ones who can't live without wealth. We are the ones who need only food and warmth and each other.
first comes the comics, or comic singular.
next comes the body count headlines of those suffering from military or other violence - equally represented will be any good accomplished through the sacrifice of the soldiers and civilians we're going to try desperately to take out of harms way.
then comes the Politics, first the Fed, then the States, and when appropriate the small communities making big differences.
finally is the Children and the Hope. End on a good note. On the back is all the other comics, or just beautiful images captured by Party Members or friends of Party Members.