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Playinghardball

(11,665 posts) Tue Aug 18, 2015, 12:39 PM Aug 2015

One of the best ideas I've heard....

ToastyPoptart ‏@LollipopCrumbs · 4h4 hours ago
One of the best ideas I've heard. #studentdebt

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One of the best ideas I've heard.... (Original Post) Playinghardball Aug 2015 OP

I used to have a Sallie Mae loan... KansDem Aug 2015 #1

KansDem

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1. I used to have a Sallie Mae loan...

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Tue Aug 18, 2015, 12:47 PM

Aug 2015

Took it out in the early 1990s to finance my graduate education.

Then Sallie Mae went private in 1997; then a corporation called "Navient" bought my loan last year.

Now I make a monthly payment to a private corporation for the "privilege" of servicing my loan.

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