The debate....or lack thereof.

I was not at home on Tuesday so I had to tape the debate and plan to watch it in its' entirety later.  I watched the first bit, and the term gong show comes to mind.  That fellow on the far right is the leader of the Bloq Quebecois, a "federal" party that has only Quebec citizen interests in mind.  How he gets to land on the debate is anybody's guess considering he doesn't even have members running in other provinces.
2 parts stuck out the most; the insistence of all parties to spend our way to prosperity and tax others to fix social problems and the discussion of our place on the international stage.  Mr. Ignatieff, the Liberal leader seems to think we should be doing more internationally including holding a more important seat in the UN and offering more aid to 3rd world countries.  I could just picture myself up there on the stage answering his questions. 
Number 1, since when is the UN important to us?  They are not our sovereign leaders and they get us involved in conflicts that do not have any bearing on our national security.  At one point, Mr. Ignatieff even used the phrase "make the world safe for democracy".  That is scary people.  It's not our job to tell others how they should live and they will reject it, just like we would reject it here if some nation started telling us how to run our lives.  Sending our citizens to die in UN conflicts, to make the world safer for democracy is not the way to use our troops. 
Number 2, all he wanted to do was talk about how the Conservatives didn't do enough to get us out of a recession and he talked a few times about impressing the world by offering more foreign aid to African nations.  If we are suffering financially, how does forcefully stealing our money and giving it to another nation help us?  Also, foreign aid when completed between governments rarely works.  Charity must remain voluntary.  I do feel for people in 3rd world nations but it remains our right as citizens to help them individually, it is not a proper moral stance to take money from citizens by force and give to those you feel deserve it!  Our political situation in Canada will remain stagnant for years to come, I am very convinced of this.