PAUL RYAN IN THE WASHINGTON POST: A Budget For The 21st Century. “Now comes a deficit speech that doesn’t even rise to the level of a plan. Missing was a credible way to curb out-of-control spending. Instead, the president called for greater reliance on government price controls, which would strictly limit the health-care options of current seniors while failing to control costs. The president would couple this approach with $1 trillion in tax increases, which would destroy jobs and hurt the economy. We cannot accept an approach that starts from the premise that ever-higher levels of spending and taxes represent America’s new normal.”