natchez car dealer carl rogel thinks people would be better off buying cars. >> and i just don't seehe value in it. i think it's just an example, a microcosm of how although the stimulus may be a good idea the waste. this $4 million doesn't need to be spent on the bus system here. he says a bus system will never catch on out here in the country. >> so not only are we spending the initial $4 million of the stimulus money, someone is going to have to support that system and that someone is going to be the tax payer. >> reporter: the editorial board at the "natchez democrat" is also skeptical. they did some math and warned that at about $20 a ride taxpayers may not be getting the most bang for their buck. >> this is one of those things about the stimulus money, we have got to dot every "i" and cross every "t." >> reporter: charles carr, is the director of transit services for the mississippi department of transportation. he helped secure the stimulus grant and says the new transit program will be subsidized, but no more than any other public system. i've seen some of the critics on the

we drove down the natchez trace parkway to get there. we first flew into memphis, and then we drove down highway 61, legendary, and then made it to the natchez trace parkway. and as we were driving and drew closer to the county where she lived, we came upon some cotton fields. i wanted to go back at the same time she would have left, which would have been about now. it was fall of the year, which is the high picking season in mississippi where she lived. and so, we saw this cotton field, wide open. there were no cars. and this is still isolated land really. and she wanted to get out and pick. and she said, "let's stop and pick some." and i said, "are you sure that we can do this? i mean, this land belongs to somebody. and we're in mississippi, besides." and she said, "oh, they're not going to care what little bit we want to pick." and so, she jumped out of the car and went out into the rows of cotton and started picking. and i went with her, still wary. and she seemed to be giddy. i mean, she hated picking cotton when she had to, but now