Wealth & Money Quote by Michele Bachmann

The tell here is the breezy word “fun,” a choice that tries to launder a hard ideological project into a vibe. Bachmann isn’t just endorsing a resume line; she’s selling a fantasy of Washington as an underperforming firm that needs a private-sector “adult” to come in, cut the dead weight, and get back to growth. The rhetorical move is classic populist-in-a-blazer: treat “the White House” as if it’s been captured by people who don’t “understand” basic economic reality, then offer the private sector as common sense rather than a set of contested interests.

“Wealth creation” does a lot of soft-focus work. It sounds like invention and jobs, not deregulation, tax cuts tilted upward, or a government less willing to police fraud, monopoly, or environmental harm. By naming wealth as “good” twice, she isn’t clarifying; she’s preempting moral objections. It’s a prophylactic against the suspicion that markets can reward extraction as easily as innovation, that fortunes can be made while communities hollow out, that “creation” can mean shifting risk downward and returns upward.

The context matters: post-2008 anger, Tea Party energy, and a conservative coalition eager to recast the financial crisis not as a market failure but as proof government meddles too much. The line isn’t an economic argument so much as a values pledge: stop apologizing for the rich, stop treating inequality as a political problem, and reframe prosperity as an endpoint rather than a question of how it’s distributed or earned.