My friends’ families lost their houses

I'm sorry to hear that.

A treasury​.​gov page I looked at around 2011 said the meltdown cost Americans $17 trillion in household income. What an utterly insane number. The lack of justice for any of the real criminals at the top is evidence that the "no one is above the law" mantra is a ridiculous joke. To use powers of ten - if you're going to steal $10 to $10,000,000 and you get caught - you're going to jail.

But if you steal $100,000,000 or ideally more - the worst that will happen is the government will fine your company. Plus - the public won't ever blame you or your criminal buddies. For a day or two (a week tops) - the public will remember that your firm, Evil Corp., paid a ginormous fine. Then they'll forget even that.

Rant: God do I hate "no one is above the law". Every time I hear some earnest asshole use it I want to... you know the thing.

Edit

I searched for no one is above the law at Wikipedia. I got redirected to this...

Nobody Is Above the Law

Nobody Is Above the Law was a protest held on November 8, 2018, organized by MoveOn to protect the Special Counsel investigation headed by Robert Mueller.

Fucking libs.