Your Page Six cartoon (Dec. 31), shwing “Big Gov’t” making a New Year’s resolution to “lose weight – without diet or exercise.” Government is our biggest debtor, with a national debt over $9 trillion. Perhaps it is time for government to destroy its own credit cards.

Only a return to a pay-as-you-go plan, balanced budgets, a freeze on current spending, actual surpluses and yearly down payments to reduce long-term debt will restore our fiscal discipline. It’s time to put Big Brother on a real diet.

Larry Penner, Great Neck