Civil servants staged enormous strikes opposing this along with other reforms. Whilst general public personal debt and inflation remained a challenge in 2004, Brazil's economic system showed indications of expansion and unemployment was down. Polls in Aug. 2004 demonstrated that the majority of Brazilians supported Lula's hard economic reform endeavours. https://prospectuso.com/userinfo.php?mod=space&do=profile&username=art_ritchard.451694&action=view