On Thursday, coal baron-turned-senator Joe Manchin threatened to kill his party’s climate, health care, and anti-poverty legislation, telling reporters: “I cannot accept our economy, or basically our society, moving towards an entitlement mentality.”

Manchin’s declaration comes almost exactly thirteen years after he played a pivotal role pushing for a massive Wall Street bailout that funneled hundreds of billions of dollars of public money to the banks whose financial crisis destroyed the global economy and ravaged West Virginia with mass foreclosures.

The bailed-out banks quickly paid themselves huge government-subsidized bonuses and later bankrolled Manchin’s political campaigns.