Fareed Zakaria has little good to say in his latest TIME column about Paul Ryan’s budget plan.

But Zakaria doesn’t have much positive spin to offer the president, either:

It was fateful that Paul Ryan released his budget plan the same week Barack Obama launched his re-election campaign — because we will now see what matters most to Obama.

The President has talked passionately and consistently about the need to tackle the country’s problems, act like grownups, do the hard things and win the future. But he has also skipped every opportunity to say how he’d tackle the gigantic problem of entitlements.