It's presented as "This is a non-zero net job thing!" without questioning it. This is a problem. Are the taxpayers squandering say $20 million for creating a minimum wage part-time, 2 week gig? Well let's not limit the opportunity here! Let's waste those 20 million dollars! We're just losing 99.9985% of our principle. What a great investment!
A bad policy fundamentally limits the number of jobs in the long run because by then you've already spent the money poorly, in a way that didn't lead to many jobs at all.
If you could "create X jobs" one way and that would lead to "X*3" jobs later on, wouldn't you want that instead of something that creates "X/4 jobs" in a temporary environment and leads to "create 0 jobs" later on?
If that's the only thing you care about; not the environment, type of job, structure of the work, sustainability of the practice, actual pay, health, culture, well-being of society, if it's only the total quantity of jobs, then it's still a wasteful squandering of resources because you can get "more created jobs" for less money many other ways.
We have to do better than just saying "ok" to every bad deal that comes along.
There are hundreds of thousands of people in this country who could use the work. Why limit their opportunities?