How much growth does it take not to "cut" spending?

Here's a nice quote from Speaker Pelosi today.

"The fact is we've had plenty of spending cuts, $1.6 trillion in the Budget Control Act. What we need is growth," Pelosi said in an interview on "Fox News Sunday." 

But of course, we know that spending in the latest CBO forecast is planned to grow 5.3% per year between now and 2023.  So we are to simultaneously believe that we are cutting spending by $1.6 trillion and growing it by 5.3%.  Of course, that 5.3% assumes the BCA caps hold through 2023, those same caps that the Congress is trying to get rid of for 2013 as we speak.

One is left to wonder how fast spending in Washington would have to grow before we would stop claiming credit for large spending "cuts."