May 26 Foster's Daily Democrat, Dover, N.H., on the estimated $300 billion cost of the savings and loan bailout: How much is $300 billion? Look at it with all its 11 zeros: $300,000,000,000. Counting once a second, it would take you 9,520 years to count to 300 billion. About 9,500 years ago human beings were just discovering the wheel. ... Federal bank regulators have sent 20 fraud cases to the Justice Department for prosecution in recent weeks and they are preparing 100 more. ... Now if only those key members of Congress and the Reagan administration who let the S&L mess fester for so long could be put on trial too. They share blame with unscrupulous bankers for this unprecedented fiasco.
