Civil servants staged enormous strikes opposing this and also other reforms. While general public personal debt and inflation remained a problem in 2004, Brazil's economic climate showed indications of advancement and unemployment was down. Polls in Aug. 2004 shown that the majority of Brazilians supported Lula's difficult financial reform efforts. https://mydesign-tool.com/userinfo.php?user=art_ritchard.451694&com=profile&do=profile