Democrats: GOP's spending cuts so extreme that they could very well pay back one whole year of Obama's deficit spending

Writing at Ace of Spades, Geoff illustrates the true scale of the Ryan budget proposals that Democrats demagogue as 'extreme'. It turns out said cuts pale in comparison to those proposed by Obama's own deficit commission.

In FY 2011, we are running a $1.425 trillion deficit. This single year of spending will take our public debt from 62.1% of GDP up to 69.1% of GDP. Now, in our daily life, whenever we run up a debt the first thing we ask is: How long will it take me to pay this off?

So, how long will it take to pay off the debt we're adding just this year? Or, a slightly easier task: how long will it take to get the debt/GDP ratio back to what it was only 6 months ago?

Please understand that we're talking about money we're burning right now. We're halfway through the fiscal year, so we're right in the middle of running up this tab that we're going to have to pay off. And the Dems won't let us slow our spending to any significant degree.

So, how long? Let's point out right away that the White House budget never pays a penny of the 2011 debt back. In fact, the public debt keeps climbing and climbing, reaching 87% of GDP by 2021. So only the two budget reform plans are even trying to pay that money back. And just how fast are they hoping to do that?

...The gray line is where we were at the end of September 2010 ==> that's our target. The blue line is the Obama administration's baseline budget. As you can see, it sails off into the stratosphere. This is the budget plan the Democrats are defending.

The teal line and red line are the Deficit Commission and Ryan's plan, respectively. The teal line makes it back to the gray line by the end of 2022. Ryan's plan? Well, you'll have to wait another 10 years...

...This is what the President and his crackerjack economic team have wrought. A one-year deficit that is so large that it can only be paid back if everything goes exactly right. And if everything goes exactly right, we're still looking at decades before we can get back to the debt level we had only 6 months ago.

As Jim DeMint warned in yesterday's Examiner, we had better start cutting now and cutting deep. Because the country is flat broke.

It should ... be the policy of the entire Republican conference that we will not vote to increase the debt ceiling without first passing this balanced budget amendment.

If we are to save this precious Republic -- this fragile vessel of our ancestors' blood, sweat and tears -- it is time to sacrifice. Starting with the federal bureaucracy.