On Friday, Paul Ryan - the 41-year-old Republican congressman from a Wisconsin district bordering Illinois – won House approval of his proposal pertaining to tax cuts spending as well as scaling back of Medicare and Medicaid.

Ryan’s bill passed on a 235-193 party-line vote, but it surely faces a much tougher test in the Democratic Senate.

Outlining his aims in a 73-page report titled "The Path to Prosperity," Ryan has chiefly annulled the revamp of Obama’s healthcare, and has proposed a cut in taxes, cut back in spending, and overhauling of health care programs for the elderly and poor. Under Ryan’s plans, health care for seniors would gradually shift to help pay for insurance premiums, with a notably much lesser spending on each recipient.

In fact, ever since Ryan unveiled his plans, his profile sky-rocketed manifold, making him a regular fixture on talk shows, and infighting partner to President Barack Obama – more so as the political ideologies of the two men are poles apart!

Noting that he wanted to cut a popular program like Medicare so as to ensure the program is solvent for his kids - aged 6, 7 and 9 years - and their kids, Ryan said in his Friday speech: “Today, America faces a time for choosing --- Whether we will continue recklessly bankrupting our nation and mortgaging our children's future to foreign bondholders, or whether we will begin to contain the insatiable appetite of government to spend, tax and suffocate the entrepreneurial spirit”!