Cycle of Poverty

I help tend the field every single day. My family and I stay poor. It's as if the crops never prosper and the fields are dying themselves. Our crops seem to dry the soil out and we don't know what to do about it. Our landlord, Mr. Smith, laughs at my father when he can't make the rent. My father promises money from the next season of crops. My family knows that the outcome of next seasons crops will be a failure, but we still hope to make some profit off of them. Mr. Smith even doubles the cost of rent each season we don't make enough money on the fields we work. It's hard on everybody.

What I don't understand is; why we don't have some economical support? We should have some one enforcing rules and regulations on how the economy should be set up. I believe if we had a little help from the federal government the South can prosper again. Of course, it won't be as prosperous as when the slaves worked on the Plantation fields. Little farms spread out won't be as prosperous as the big plantatations, but the farms can try. The whole nation will be unified if we had someone telling these landlords, such as Mr. Smith, that they can't overcharge the rent or keep their farmers poor. It's not right to keep the poor people poor.