[user104658]

You know, I've just realised that the entire premise if this thread highlights the fact that right-minded people don't understand left ideology at all. "Why aren't the left pleased that the economy is on the up"?

This is the entire debate of left/right politics. The right believes that business and economic performance are the measure of a society, and the left believes that actual living standards and equality are the measure of a society.

In other words, they don't "celebrate" economic stats because those numbers mean absolutely nothing if they don't translate into better living standards for normal people which, thus far, they have not. The left will celebrate when economic success means more for EVERYONE... Not just more for Billy Stockbroker.