Chapters 3-6

The banks are just doing their job. In a time like this, businesses would have to cut cost and the easiest cost to cut is labor. The landowners work with the banks and they realize that tenant farming is not earning a lot of profit. The impact on the farmers, as discussed in the conversations during dinner with Casey, Tom, and Muley, is realistic. Farmers may not fight the banks but it would make sense that they at least plead. None of them are lying by saying that they have no place to go. California may sound promising but how can they know if the banks are being truthful? Transportation to the state may not be possible for many because the tenant farm was their occupation. They would not need a car to travel from work to their house. It is all just unfortunate. The land owners, in many cases, do not see much of a monetary gain from cutting these labor costs, anyway. However, they do have to look out for the own. The labor cuts are necessary and I understand. I think those who lose their houses also understand, at least partially, because they do not fight the banks.