[When confronted with a choice between healthcare for the poor and the near-poor on the one hand, and the continued overstuffing of the overclass on the other hand, Obama made a decisive choice: He chose the overclass. He put rich people first.]
That is quite true. A lot of bankers and the politicians who enabled them should be hanging from lampposts (figuratively), but they skated.
What do you mean, “figuratively”?