Call him the Kanye West of the common man. If you were watching Fox News shortly after 3PM Eastern Time this afternoon you witnessed Alicia Acuna interview a guy who was the perfect example of the entitlement mentality of some of these evacuees. The guy refused to give his name and if he didn't have guts enough to give his name, Fox shouldn't have given him the courtesy of an interview. But just for the sake of argument, we'll call the guy Mr. Nameless, and far from being grateful for everything that HAD been done for him, Mr. Nameless was pissed that what he hadn't been given.

Mr. Nameless purported to speak for a whole group of pissed off folks at the Astrodome. According to Mr. Nameless, all these folks were mad because they weren't getting what they deserve -- wads of cash. The guy was clean, in clean clothing obviously well-fed and had a nice pair of sunglasses perched on his head, but he wasn't happy with clean clothes, food, a place to shower and some shades, he wanted what he thought the taxpayers of America owed him for the misfortune of living in the path of a terrible natural disaster.

What did America owe him? Acuna didn't ask; just listened intently as Mr. Nameless profanely described his ordeal as modern day slavery saying they "just put them on busses" and shipped them off not knowing where they were going and whined and bitched about how a government as big as ours ought to be able to give them what they deserve. That would have been it if New York anchor Bob Sellers wouldn't have prompted Acuna to ask Mr. Nameless what he deserved. At that point we found out exactly what Mr. Nameless thought we owed him and everyone else who was displaced by hurricane Katrina: "$20,000 apiece so we can get our lives back together" saying the government needs to "give us what the f*ck we deserve."

Acuna just kind of stood there for a second stunned. In the absence of any reaction on the part of Acuna, Sellers cut the "interview" with Mr. Nameless off by indignantly saying "that's enough" and something about how he understood their was frustration out there but there was no call for that language. When Sellers went back to Acuna she was either gone or frozen in stunned disbelief that the guy she was "interviewing" had let the F-bomb fly during her interview. What the hell did she expect when she picked some nameless nimrod in front of the Astrodome for an interview?

The frustration of Mr. Nameless understandable perhaps, but the entitlement mentality is despicable. Has he no appreciation for the thousands of people who have put their lives on hold to go down and help him and his fellow evacuees in their time of need? The bus driver who he apparently sees as the master of the slave wagon? The thousands of people who prepared and staff the Astrodome? The hundreds of landlords all over the country who offered up apartments free of charge to hurricane victims? The millions of American citizens who have opened up their wallets to the tune of $700 million so far to give to the relief effort? It seems to me that there are a hell of a lot of people who have gone out of their way to make sure that Mr. Nameless and the rest of the Katrina evacuees are as accommodated as possible. But apparently this just isn't enough for Mr. Nameless because all he can see fit to do is bitch about his measly $700 debit card and the fact that the government hasn't thrown 20 grand at him and everyone else who was displaced by hurricane Katrina.

There's no question that what happened to these folks in the worst natural disaster in modern U.S. history was devastating but where does this guy get the idea that this means he should get a $20,000 entitlement from the U.S. taxpayer? We have no control over these natural disasters but it seems to me, that as the magnitude of these disasters increases so does the predisposition to think that personal tragedy and hardship creates some type of huge monetary entitlement on the part of the government to the affected citizens. And Hurricane Katrina seems to have brought out the worst of this: Throw money at the affected people but if you don't throw it fast enough or don't throw what somemone thinks is enough, you're going to get some profane jackass on national television bitching and cussing up a storm about how he's not getting "what the f*ck" he thinks he deserves.

My heart goes out to these folks who were displaced by this disaster, but adverse circumstances affect millions of people all over the country every year and all you can do is pick up the pieces and go on. Whining and bitching and cussing the government because you didn't get your entitlement doesn't do you a bit of good.

Early this evening, Fox talked to a couple of neighbors who had been evacuated in a plane bound for Philadelphia. They didn't know where they were going until they were halfway there, but they weren't bitching about it. They were happy to be out of New Orleans and on their way to make a new life in a new city, wherever that was. They'll get their monetary assistance, but they weren't bitching about how it wasn't coming fast enough and saying that they needed the get "what the f*ck we deserve". I hope their attitude and not the entitlement attitude of Mr. Nameless is more representative of the attitude of the majority of the evacuees because the situation is what you make of it and having a can-do attitude will serve you a lot better than whining and bitching and waiting around for someone to give you a handout.