Well, creating jobs means that money get's given to those that get those newly created jobs. Now, I agree with the OP's assertion that it's kinda ridiculous to

Well, creating jobs means that money get's given to those that get those newly created jobs. Now, I agree with the OP's assertion that it's kinda ridiculous to claim that labor automagically creates money. But the end result in this case is that money spent on "job-creation" is money that is given (or if you want to go further, redistributed) to those that got the jobs. I think that we've somehow, as a society, been convinced in thinking that state-intervention needs to "create" jobs because industry won't do it by itself. That's the assertion we need to fix/educate about, not the one that job creation means more money, as you claim.