Civil servants staged huge strikes opposing this along with other reforms. Even though general public debt and inflation remained a problem in 2004, Brazil's economic system showed signs of progress and unemployment was down. Polls in Aug. 2004 shown that the majority of Brazilians supported Lula's hard economic reform endeavours. https://brandwoot.com/userinfo.php?username=leonel-vardon_451694&com=profile&action=view&mod=space&op=userinfo