In fact the critics of Obama have a higher percentage of the percentages on their side to show how the administration has failed to achieve a recovery, among them: 18 per cent of adults without full-time work; 40 per cent of the unemployed out of work for six months or longer; 15 per cent of Americans dependent on Food Stamps (up from 7.9 per cent from 1970-2000); and 66 per cent who now believe the country is heading in the wrong direction.