Civil servants staged huge strikes opposing this along with other reforms. Although general public personal debt and inflation remained a problem in 2004, Brazil's economic climate showed signs of progress and unemployment was down. Polls in Aug. 2004 shown that almost all of Brazilians supported Lula's rough economic reform efforts. https://blakebusinessservices.com/profile.php?userinfo=lawerence_atlas-451694&from=space&op=userinfo