Rep. Paul Ryan on his Budget: It will save $6.2 Trillion over Ten Years

Some people are simply in the right job at the right time. Paul Ryan (R-WI) is one of them. As head of the House Budget Committee, he has put forth a budget - released today - that claims to trip $6.2 Trillion in cuts from Obama's budget and $4.4 Trillion in deficits. If you do the math, it means the Obama budget does indeed increase the deficit despite his claims that it will to the opposite over the next ten years. Ryan has a piece in today's Wall Street Journal in which he makes his case just prior to the budget release.

Via WSJ:

Congress is currently embroiled in a funding fight over how much to spend on less than one-fifth of the federal budget for the next six months. Whether we cut $33 billion or $61 billion—that is, whether we shave 2% or 4% off of this year's deficit—is important. It's a sign that the election did in fact change the debate in Washington from how much we should spend to how much spending we should cut.

But this morning the new House Republican majority will introduce a budget that moves the debate from billions in spending cuts to trillions. America is facing a defining moment. The threat posed by our monumental debt will damage our country in profound ways, unless we act.

No one person or party is responsible for the looming crisis. Yet the facts are clear: Since President Obama took office, our problems have gotten worse. Major spending increases have failed to deliver promised jobs. The safety net for the poor is coming apart at the seams. Government health and retirement programs are growing at unsustainable rates. The new health-care law is a fiscal train wreck. And a complex, inefficient tax code is holding back American families and businesses.

The president's recent budget proposal would accelerate America's descent into a debt crisis. It doubles debt held by the public by the end of his first term and triples it by 2021. It imposes $1.5 trillion in new taxes, with spending that never falls below 23% of the economy. His budget permanently enlarges the size of government. It offers no reforms to save government health and retirement programs, and no leadership.

Our budget, which we call The Path to Prosperity, is very different. For starters, it cuts $6.2 trillion in spending from the president's budget over the next 10 years, reduces the debt as a percentage of the economy, and puts the nation on a path to actually pay off our national debt. Our proposal brings federal spending to below 20% of gross domestic product (GDP), consistent with the postwar average, and reduces deficits by $4.4 trillion.

A study just released by the Heritage Center for Data Analysis projects that The Path to Prosperity will help create nearly one million new private-sector jobs next year, bring the unemployment rate down to 4% by 2015, and result in 2.5 million additional private-sector jobs in the last year of the decade. It spurs economic growth, with $1.5 trillion in additional real GDP over the decade. According to Heritage's analysis, it would result in $1.1 trillion in higher wages and an average of $1,000 in additional family income each year.

Expect to see calls for Ryan to throw his hat in the ring for president in 2012 after this budget comes out. Steven Hayward at Powerline even makes the case that he should. In light of this exchange between Obama and Ryan during the Health Care Summit in 2010, the debates between the two men leading up to the presidential election would be awesome and Ryan would wipe the floor with Obama.



After watching that, check this out. Kathleen Sebelius even admits Ryan is correct.



Read it all.

h/t Verum Serum