If this is supposed to be a rebuttal to the quote from the new testament, then it's a major strawman. The quote from Timothy 6:10 is "the love of money is the root of all evil." (my italics)
The quote from Timothy 6:10 is actually something like "ριζα γαρ παντων των κακων εστιν η φιλαργυρια ης τινες ορεγομενοι απεπλανηθησαν απο της πιστεως και εαυτους περιεπειραν οδυναις πολλαις", if you're going to get technical.
The New American Standard Bible renders the relevant piece of that quote as "For the love of money is a root of all sorts of evil".
Please note this is by way of information. If a thing is to be damned or praised, let it be damned or praised for what it truly is, not for what is left after a three-level Telephone game. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telephone_game)
The "love of money" is also dealt with in the article:
"Or did you say it's the love of money that's the root of all evil? To love a thing is to know and love its nature. To love money is to know and love the fact that money is the creation of the best power within you, and your passkey to trade your effort for the effort of the best among men. It's the person who would sell his soul for a nickel, who is loudest in proclaiming his hatred of money--and he has good reason to hate it. The lovers of money are willing to work for it. They know they are able to deserve it."
To see men perform the most immoral of acts for money, it becomes easy to believe money to be a wretched thing.
Thus, it's not a far leap to consider the love (or insane lust) of money as evil.
Hence, the quote from the bible is there to protect men from performing acts of evil in the search for or in the name of money.
"[T]he love of traditional capitalist values"! The meaning of money, which she explained, is the same quite apart from your "traditional capitalist values" -- didn't want to let that rhetorical slap zip by unchallenged.
If you can understand the meaning of money and claim that love of money, which embodies that meaning, is the root of all evil, fine. But then, you might as well say that love of ANYTHING that's good is the root of all evil. In the same way that this maxim exaggerates its claim, I can plausibly argue that love of sex with women is the root of all evil, because men commit most evil and, one way or another, most of it has its roots in pursuing women.
Note that the heroes of Atlas Shrugged all voluntarily give up their monetary fortunes. The book's central theme is the reason that would cause them to do that.
There is nothing inherently wrong with the love of money, morally or otherwise. If you were to make an argument against money, perhaps the best you could do would be to criticize what a person _chooses to do_ with money. Do they choose to impoverish others, or do they choose to move society forward?
Besides, I do not think that religion has a pedestal to stand upon when criticizing the love of money. What clothes does the pope wear? Are cathedrals built for free by those who want them, and then donated to their community? Are statues, and relics, and other icons made and distributed for free?
There are very few religious centers -- either individual or geographical -- that do not bundle themselves up in the comforts of wealth.
