Not the issue. Government spending provides many people with a livelihood. That doesn't make it an investment that is good for society.
The question, if we're going to talk about job creation, is how many jobs were created by this project as opposed to the same amount of money invested more productively.
I agree it's his money, although many if not most of these guys are more likely to be crony capitalists than free market types, and he should be able to spend it as he likes.
But if you defend his decisions on a job-creation basis, it opens those decisions up to criticism on the same basis.
Ping.