or as Mark Twain from the US said years ago, “It’s easier to fool people than to convince them they have been fooled” I happen to agree with that because more than once I was fooled and refused to believe it. Eventually hopefully one obtains wisdom
who do you think run prepares the data to run computer models, run the models and analyze the data after? Computers???
Except some of those new hires, were in fact people that worked as contractor for NOAA for a long time and only recently were made full employees. The knowledge and expertise loss will be very expensive to replace.
Hundreds of scientists working on the models and data that feed weather forecasts were terminated.
How many were lost when Clinton sacked 344,000 gov employees?
Under Clinton, the government offered mass buyouts. But there’s a key difference with what’s happening under President Donald Trump: a bipartisan Congress overwhelmingly approved Clinton’s programme following months of review…
We spent six months, involved several hundred federal workers, and made hundreds of recommendations to Clinton and Gore, some of which they accepted, some they didn’t,” said David Osborne, an adviser to the Clinton-era review that preceded the buyouts.
Al Jazeera
Might also add that Clinton had a budget surplus from 1998-2001 mainly due to a strong economy, increased taxes on upper incomes and spending restraints. The largest surplus in modern history.
Don’t let facts get in the way of a good quip…
Again , same as above 
Kind of like our election process.