are in a row. their kids may have moved out of the home and may be thinking about down sizing which leads to opportunities for builders to build nice properties. one of my clients had mentioned to me that he is not looking to is he looking to down size but not looking to go to a lower quality. newer appliances. everything that they are going to have is going to be top of the line. maybe some rental properties too that you could do. spruce up and find low cost property. clean it up. put some new appliances in there rent it a retired couple. again, there is a tremendous opportunity because they are coming from bigger houses that had a few kids in them, too. something where they want low maintenance and things to be very simple. if you can provide them that type of service you are going to do very well. prerye retirement now and on your list is early retirement. what s that? early retirement is the beginning phasing of retirement. you just left your full-time position. a lot of
modernization, the down sizing of the military, the drones, things people are talking about today. the next secretary of defense is not going to have to deal with iraq. iraq is a fait accompli, but john mccain is obsessed with the past and with the glory of war idea that is from the 20th century. he needs to move on. here is lindsey graham bad r badgering defense nominee hagel on whether the iranian national guard should be designated a terrorist organization. i think this is aimed directly at south carolina s right wing. let s listen. if there was a vote on the floor of the senate this afternoon to label the iranian revolutionary guard, the people who have killed our soldiers in iraq, some of the most vicious people to the people of iran themselves, if there were a vote tomorrow or this afternoon or
people s money. how come they have never got tagged as being greedy and selfish as they steel from our kid s piggy banks. i think no one turned the camera on them. this is a bipartisan problem not beat down the democrats. they are the party of big government. this is a permanent political class that is formed in air stock see. that is why nothing changes in washing tonight thooes why we have the budget debates. you are talking about cuts in growth rates not cuts in the budget of down sizing. they never cut it. the reason you can tell they have really iks tracted money through taxes and ability to borrow from their lifestyles. in addition there s no pressure on them to really cut. they really control wall street it s not money controls washington. washington controls the money they have industrial logic to the business model that is to extract power in the rest of the country to money into a centralized location which is washington. you mentioned maserati
defend themselves. they are being massacred. this president does nothing. in afghanistan, i m telling you that it is unraveling there because all the president talks about is withdrawal and leaving. and you are seeing a reinsurgentence of al-qaeda there. so as far as the middle east is concerned, this president s national security policy has been an abyssmal failure and i want to go back again to syria. how can you not speak up on behalf of these people who are being massacred by the hundreds every day using iranian weapons, russian weapons, al-qaeda and other terrorist organizations? it s mind boggling. i have not seen a morphicless foreign policy since president carter. brian: i tell you what, he seems to be getting a pass on it, which is staggering to manhattan the defense firms are going to be looking at a big the defense military complex looking at big-time down sizing. how many layoffs are we looking at, especially if sequestration is allowed to go through this
this is a big day for republicans running for president. one of the most conservative groups in the country is about to announce results of its straw poll. dana bash will join us live in a moment. in maine, republican voters are finishing their caucuses. mitt romney and ron paul are campaigning in the state trying to break their string of losses. overseas now. the besieged syrian town of homs endures a seventh straight day of bombardment there. opposition activists say hundreds of people have been killed there in the past week. the death toll across syria today climbed to at least 30. the u.s. conference of catholic bishops issued a statement on president obama s compromise over contraception funding. it says the plan raises serious moral concerns. the government s new health policy originally wanted hospitals and schools with religious ties to offer full coverage for contraceptives. after days of opposition from the catholic church, the white house dropped that requireme