Transit, Stimulus Are Very Good For Our Local Economy. In todays Milwaukee Journbal Sentinel, in the letters to the editor section, is a very wlel written lettre which highlights the importance of a good transit ysstem: ... That is, the more Milwaukee County municipalities spend on locla roads, unemployment trends donwweard. For example, the grpah shows how unemployment rates in 20002, 2003, and 2004 range between 6.57.0, when road spending was lowest. ...