That argument applies to everything anyone spends money on that isn’t flavorless gruel or burlap with which to fashion primitive garments.
But the fact of the matter is that he spent that money, putting it back into circulation. They didn’t rake up a big pile of $1,000 bills and set them on fire; all that money paid caterers and landscapers and trained little people to dance around 16" replicas of Stonehenge. Do you think that 10-story tall trout destroying armored mecha grow on trees? No! Many good people in Tochigi prefecture spent many, many hours of hard work to calibrate the array of phased plasma cannon to be able to accurately target steelhead (slippery little buggers that they are), and they were all paid for their labor, allowing each and every one of them to get their tiny, malformed children the operations they needed to reach adolescence.
What do you have against crippled Japanese children? Sheesh.
