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-stephanie: whoo! -lemonis: tonight, i m gonna tell you how they do it my best deals, my worst deals. steve: i d rather be in more debt than have you running my company. lemonis: this is the profit a progress report. my name is marcus lemonis. change is difficult. and over the last 18 months, i ve introduced you to 23 small businesses across this country, many of them in pretty bad shape. this is a bad scenario. woman: we don t have the money to pay them. larissa: just everything all the bills and everything that s just been piling up. it s just so much. lemonis: that s fine. and i fix failing businesses. it s been an interesting journey. well, this looks a lot better in here. .a tough one. -i took you at your word! -gary: bull[bleep] lemonis: cause when each episode ends, my work is just beginning. there you go. to date, i ve invested almost $20 million of my own money to help these small businesses reach their full potential. stephanie: wow. i mean, i m blown ....
-andrew: oh, yeah, i do. -lemonis: no. but today, i m a proud partner in over a dozen companies. -stephanie: whoo! -lemonis: tonight, i m gonna tell you how they do it my best deals, my worst deals. steve: i d rather be in more debt than have you running my company. lemonis: this is the profit a progress report. my name is marcus lemonis. change is difficult. and over the last 18 months, i ve introduced you to 23 small businesses across this country, many of them in pretty bad shape. this is a bad scenario. woman: we don t have the money to pay them. larissa: just everything all the bills and everything that s just been piling up. it s just so much. lemonis: that s fine. and i fix failing businesses. it s been an interesting journey. well, this looks a lot better in here. .a tough one. -i took you at your word! -gary: bull[bleep] lemonis: cause when each episode ends, my work is just beginning. there you go. to date, i ve invested almost $20 million of my own m ....
government continue to expand. the projects continued during that year s, you had democratic congress is before those here so when you have a republican president with the democratic congress it tends to perpetuate. reagan halted that. there s an interesting argument about how much he reversed it. he did not really shrink government. the federal government was about the same size when he left office when he was elected. the government stopped growing. he gave rise to a movement that still holds to his fundamental belief that is the modern conservative movement. i think you could argue that since 1980 we have been living in the age of ragan. just as republican presidents were republican presidents in a liberal in a liberal area before that the democratic presidents have been democratic presidents in a largely conservative era since then. i think changing the direction of government, challenging the role of government, stopping the growth of expansion of government and th ....
debates. if you are a republican. if you are a democrat. and 202-748-8002 if you are an independent. you can join the conversation on facebook at facebook.com/cspan. here are some of the comments i have already come in. michelle says, i learned more from the town hall formats. the debates are mostly candidates talking over each other and what they have to say amounts to not much more than a soundbite due to the limited amount of time they have to speak. and with the town halls, the average joe often ask questions the moderators don t ask. learned if a nation of 315 million can only put forth a communist, a known criminal, and the keystone k ops as president, we are sunk. our elitist political ruling class has just about achieved what the communists have been trying to do for 100 years. person says, the debates are necessary if you have been paying attention to politics. if anything, they distort, not clarify. if you want to come in through the phone lines, 202 is the ar ....
are your states problems and how is your governor addressing those problems? here is how you can call and let us know 202-748-8001 for mountain and specific time zones. if you want to post on this thought about your state s problems, you might do so on twitter @c-spanwj. and you can post on our facebook page. of currentampling issues involving governors across the united states, we start in louisiana with the new elected governor, john bel edwards. already addressing the state s budget issues. he says, he s holding a special session to do so. saying that escalating rhetoric majord a grim picture of problems for higher education, health care and other services unless the legislature agrees on how to come up with $930 million by june 30. he says without legislative action, baton rouge some campuses would be declaring bankruptcy. and health care would suffer devastating cuts, including hospital closings. it means the difference between life and death. that is in louisi ....