I'll check into the spending cuts during the English Depression when I get the chance, Richard. The fact is though, America rarely if ever "cuts" any of its programs. Instead, it "reduces the rate of increase". You also asked for my explanation of the phrase "tough on the causes of crime". I'm not sure I can give you a simple enough explanation if you're confused by such a phrase.
Step 1: Release non-violent drug offenders from prison.
Step 2: Mandatory sentencing for violent criminals, who will have plenty of free space in the now empty cells provided by step 1.
Step 3: Reform education funding so that every school in a state is on a level playing field.
Step 4: End the subsidization of illegitimacy. Cruel by a Liberal's standards, perhaps, but it won't take long for people to become responsible for their actions when they realize that producing extra kids will not producing extra money. If I don't have the right to come to your door with a gun to ask for money for someone who spits out a child per year, then neither should the government, since it's rights are derived from the citizens. And the fact is, illegitimacy is the number one link to crime in America.

As for whoever it was that had a problem with the statistics I've used in past threads, I invite you to disprove them. Now, if you don't like them because they show things that you'd prefer not to see, then just say so. But don't make fun of me simply for taking a smaller government, individual responsibility-oriented angle on some of my arguments, and for using a few numbers to back them up.