Civil servants staged large strikes opposing this and also other reforms. Although general public personal debt and inflation remained a dilemma in 2004, Brazil's financial state confirmed signs of growth and unemployment was down. Polls in Aug. 2004 shown that almost all of Brazilians supported Lula's hard economic reform endeavours. https://evergreen-friends.com/userinfo.php?from=space&com=profile&mod=space&action=view&userinfo=ericka_prendergast-451694