Civil servants staged massive strikes opposing this together with other reforms. Whilst general public personal debt and inflation remained a challenge in 2004, Brazil's overall economy showed signs of growth and unemployment was down. Polls in Aug. 2004 shown that the majority of Brazilians supported Lula's hard economic reform endeavours. https://build-mind.com/userinfo.php?do=profile&from=space&userinfo=emmanuel_bach-451694&mod=space&name=Your_Account