Civil servants staged substantial strikes opposing this along with other reforms. Whilst general public financial debt and inflation remained a difficulty in 2004, Brazil's overall economy showed signs of expansion and unemployment was down. Polls in Aug. 2004 demonstrated that almost all of Brazilians supported Lula's tricky financial reform efforts. https://bettaso.com/userinfo.php?username=lawerence_atlas-451694&do=profile&op=userinfo