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The 1500 workers are private workers or will they / do they receive their payroll from the taxpayer? Good for contractor work, and the furniture, electronics made in China - so it would certainly support the Chinese job market. Coffee shops, restaurants, cleaners, gas stations would show up whether it was a Government building or a private building - so that's irrelevant. The bottom line is, government creates more jobs to increase the size of government - eventually that model collapses on itself. Government's responsibility isn't to make itself bigger, it's to allow it's citzens to use the market and their abilities to create business on their own and become successful; not become yet another government drone on the taxpayer payroll.
1- nothing is irrelevant in this example. Government creates the building. Government staffs the building. Workers in the building provide services that the American people want. Other businesses come in and provide services for the workers in that building. Everything placed in that building comes from some worker - be it a manufacturer worker or a dock worker or a truck driver or a loading person or just plain grunt who takes it off the truck and places it in the office. That is highly relevant.
2 - And this nonsense about "eventually the model collapses in on itself" is pure hyperbole. When we get to that point, you be sure to let all of us know. In fact, you will not have to let us know since it will be obvious by the economic collapse. Otherwise, thats an interesting theory which has nothing to do with the example I gave you.