Work ethic slipping further with each new generation?

The article focuses on the work ethics of Americans in relation to the U.S. President George W. Bush startling remarks concerning the manual work performed by illegal aliens, mostly from Mexico, coming into the United States. Illegal aliens tackle a lot of landscape and construction work that, apparently, most Americans are too good to perform. When the author was growing up work was assumed. It had to be done before he could go fishing, run off to the swimming hole or lie around under the shade reading about adventurers. His generation, which did not work nearly as hard as his parents' generation did, may be the last to have a strong work ethic ingrained into their psyches.