Rejected petition cancel foreign aid

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Charity should be the personal choice of the private citizen and not imposed via government and taxation. Stop make Aid political.Find a way to encourage and support Aid charity via legitimate charities and thus stop the Government giving out AID en masse.i.e the Gov's responsibility is to the uk citizen/taxpayer.It is not a charity and should,therefore,retreat from the charitable role it currently takes in favour of private AID charities.Governments giving AID doesn't work because it is 'too' political.Thus stop doing it and let private charities do this work instead.

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Date submitted 16 August 2011
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