Civil servants staged large strikes opposing this along with other reforms. Whilst general public personal debt and inflation remained an issue in 2004, Brazil's economic system showed signs of growth and unemployment was down. Polls in Aug. 2004 shown that the majority of Brazilians supported Lula's hard economic reform endeavours. https://beadvices.net/profile.php?name=Your_Account&userinfo=dan-walling_451694&com=profile&mod=space