Civil servants staged significant strikes opposing this together with other reforms. Even though general public debt and inflation remained a problem in 2004, Brazil's overall economy showed signs of growth and unemployment was down. Polls in Aug. 2004 shown that the majority of Brazilians supported Lula's hard financial reform endeavours. https://whelex.com/userinfo.php?userinfo=shelli-deal-451694&com=profile&from=space