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Generations who have been indoctrinated into ideas of dependency on government, forcible redistribution of the earnings of their fellow citizens, without requirement of anything in return, cannot be expected to be responsible and accountable when receiving the benefits the elitist government entity who took it from their fellow citizens, bestows upon them.

8 posted on 02/13/2019 11:45:19 AM PST by Ouderkirk (Life is about ass, you're either covering, hauling, laughing, kicking, kissing, or behaving like one)

The nature of the economics did not make sense

Gee that's shocking. /sarcasm

So we reach our happy ending
Rich and poor can now embrace
Once the cash is not a problem
Happy endings can take place...

- The Threepenny Opera

What keeps us from utopia is that cash is always a problem".

"Liberty Doll" is a cutie and has great expressions. Wowza! Synopsis from "Restaurant Business Online ":

Nearly a decade ago, Panera Bread launched its nonprofit, pay-what-you-can Panera Cares program with the goal of expanding it to every city in the country.
But the fast-casual chain will shutter its last such cafe, a store in Boston, next week, according to a statement from the company emailed to Restaurant Business. It will join already-closed pay-what-you-can cafes in Dearborn, Mich.; Portland, Ore.; Clayton, Mo.; and Chicago.
"During its six years in operation, we served meals with dignity to everyone who walked through our doors," the statement said. "Despite our commitment to this mission, it's become clear that continued operation of the Boston Panera Cares is no longer viable."
Under the Panera Cares model, each menu item was posted with a recommended donation. On average, consumers ended up paying 85% of the suggested price, according to company reports.
Panera founder and Executive Chairman Ron Shaich told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, upon the closing of the Missouri cafe last year, that “the nature of the economics did not make sense.”
Nevertheless, Shaich called the pay-what-you-can stores a success.
“We served probably a half-million meals through this cafe, all at no set prices, as a gift to the community,” he told the newspaper. “We loved it, it worked well, it proved that the idea would work.”

It was a "Pay what you can afford" model and college students looking for free food killed it.

How could selling food at a serious loss "not make sense"? The Executive Chairman and Founder is just an evil white capitalist trying to make exorbitant profits at the expense of the proletariat. Off with his head for shutting down his "free food experiment."

Only a died-in-the-wool true-believer would call a near ten year experiment that lost money hand over fist a "success."

Thanks for posting this. I hadn’t heard of this young lady before. She really impresses me — another budding conservative millennial superstar!

The Panera arrangement wasn’t socialism because buyers didn’t have money involuntary taken from them.

You can’t fix stupid. History books are full of all the places where socialism failed. The fact that illegals are leaving socialist states south of the border by the millions is more proof. It’s not rocket science.