and cut 1000 jobs over a period of ten years, they don't plan on firing people in the jobs, they plan to lose the jobs through attrition. at the end of the game, a leaner federal government. i don't know how the people at noaa feel about potentially moving, i don't know how all those offices and their public servants feel about being reorganized from the outside looking in, this sort of reorganization does seem rational. shrinking and streamlining government to make it make more sense to the people who need to use to it get stuff done. republicans naturally have no idea what to do with this development. republicans have been so busy screaming that president obama must shrink government, so busy alleging that he's devoted to growing government whenever he can, but now that he is trying to shrink government, they reacted by being sort of suspicious and not happy but not sure why they're not happy. john boehner's spokesman released a statement "given the president's record of growing government" not sure what he