Ohio couple, parents of two, get massive student loan debt behind them
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Josiah Poletta and his wife, Courtney, of Van Wert, Ohio, are free of $142,000 in debt — $126,000 of which was student loans — after great struggle and a lot of planning and determination.
"We wanted to have our own money set aside if we needed it." "When you pay off that first one and move on to the next, you’ll see that debt is not the boss of your money. You are." "I went an entire winter without heat in my car because I wasn't able to afford to fix it." "I personally decided it was time for me to pay off those loans. I don't really think the government should bail me out for that."
The husband and dad of two — a high school history teacher in Van Wert, Ohio — told Fox News Digital in a phone interview about the path he took to get to a much better place financially and personally. It was a path littered with hardship.
Still, he said he would not have wanted the government to bail him out of the financial straits that he got himself into, he said.
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