Civil servants staged large strikes opposing this and other reforms. Even though general public personal debt and inflation remained a challenge in 2004, Brazil's economic climate showed indications of progress and unemployment was down. Polls in Aug. 2004 shown that almost all of Brazilians supported Lula's tricky financial reform attempts. https://bravelight.net/userinfo.php?do=profile&userinfo=vernon_symons.451694&name=Your_Account