Civil servants staged huge strikes opposing this as well as other reforms. Whilst general public financial debt and inflation remained an issue in 2004, Brazil's economy confirmed indications of growth and unemployment was down. Polls in Aug. 2004 shown that the majority of Brazilians supported Lula's difficult economic reform endeavours. https://mydesign-tool.com/profile.php?op=userinfo&name=Your_Account&user=lavon_smith-451694