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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I believe that they aren't trying to kill NOAA, but instead move it to other agencies that are better aligned with it. Thus perhaps reducing admin or redundant positions. There are definitely economies of scale when reorging. [/quote]

That's possible and will likely happen to every agency.  They are doing a major "re-org" and treating Fed like a private corporation undergoing merge/acquisition, optimizing and having new upper level execs implement their whims.  This is what all of us working in private sector are very familiar with and none of this is shocking.[/quote]

NP in the private sector with fed spouse and it's not really the same, this whole thing is pretty chaotic.  You have this buyout offer that expires on Thursday and the details are still rolling out.  Rather than identifying certain functions to get rid of in a thoughtful manner they are just trying to cut headcount without regard to function.

Could this have been done in a thoughtful way? Absolutely but it's not being handled that way.[/quote]

This literally happened in banking industry (as an example) multiple times.  Many mergers, banks going under, huge numbers of employees getting laid off.  In some buyouts they even offer employees packages and you can put yourself on the "list" for the next layoff.   Maybe if you want to be dramatic you can compare this rift to what happened to many banking and RE related industries in 2008.  There are other industries like retail where this happens all the time, companies (giants) close down and many brick and mortar chain giants selling all sorts of goods had closed down.  What do you think happened to their many many thousands of employees?  Maybe if you are in the private industry like law or healthcare there hadn't been a lot of chaos and your employment had been more or less stable, especially in affluent and law firm heavy areas like DC metro.  If you had been in banking, Tech/IT, retail, real estate, marketing, etc, all these industries had been very volatile and largely effected by any rifts in the economy and also massive outsourcing and replacement of American jobs with foreign workers and automation.

There has never been job security in the private sector, your spouse is lucky.  [/quote]

You don't want your government to be chaotic. You want your information to be reliable, true, transparent, and non-partisan. Markets only function with good information.  Trump wants to get rid of the people providing the information that banks, the stock markets, private companies, and researchers all use and can trust. If you rely on the private sector for this info, no one will trust it.  People will pull back from transactions.  You get an economy that just muddles along.
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