key to making at through these trying economic times and they did make mansions are the producer meghan lopez introduces us to people who say when it comes to owning a home bigger isn't always better. it was the quintessential american dream get a stable job buy a big house in the suburbs with a white picket fence and fill it with a couple of kids and maybe even a dog but these days the real american dream just may look like this or this or even this it's all part of a growing trend in the u.s. known as the small house movement and it asks americans to do something that is quite an american who live within their means during the recession or in times and to be more conservative and we tend see to reduce our costs more about ways to do that and smaller home with a lower price associated with it since the one nine hundred fifty s. the size of the typical household has doubled the paradigm here in america has been . that bigger is better but in the last couple years that has proven to be not the case when the housing bubble burst it took with it the dreams and homes of millions of americans and

the same american dream but in a little smaller of a package reporting and carlisle pennsylvania meghan lopez r t. shows coming up in just a half an hour let's check in with alona to see what's on today's agenda alone or what can we look forward to as well we're definitely going to be talking about this but today as you know yesterday the white house issued a veto threat there might be a vote tomorrow on the house floor and today they finally started baiting it and so there are a lot of amendments up there so we're going to have trevor tim join us to really break it down and see if any of those amendments are actually a solution or make his bill any less dangerous especially when it comes to your civil liberties and we're going to take a look at marco rubio senator marco rubio's foreign policy speech that he gave at brookings yesterday he's quite the rising star amongst the neo-cons and let's just say that he took the theme of american exceptionalism pretty much as far as you can go so we're going to see if the g.o.p. is that a little bit of a loss right now when it comes to their foreign pol

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