The magazine offers a straightforward one-page account of the Wisconsin congressman?s efforts to ?muck out the stalls in Washington?:

[A]t the heart of Ryan?s revolution is his Roadmap for America?s Future ? an ambitious 87-page, 75-year plan for getting America back in the black. Ryan has been thinking of this plan for years, but it wasn?t until he became ranking member of the House Budget Committee in 2007 that he had enough clout to get the Congressional Budget Office to crunch his numbers. He proposes semiprivatizing Social Security by allowing younger workers to divert part of their payments to individual accounts they could access at retirement. He suggests abolishing Medicare and replacing it with vouchers for private insurers. He proposes capping total spending and freezing nondefense discretionary spending, though he leaves defense spending untouched.

Ryan is the first to admit that his plan is not perfect. ?

Ryan replies by noting that someone has to go first. ?I really sincerely hoped that a few other people from both parties would start throwing their plans out there, and then we?d get into the business of debating these things.?