Civil servants staged enormous strikes opposing this and also other reforms. Whilst general public financial debt and inflation remained an issue in 2004, Brazil's overall economy confirmed signs of growth and unemployment was down. Polls in Aug. 2004 demonstrated that almost all of Brazilians supported Lula's tough financial reform endeavours. https://constico.com/userinfo.php?op=userinfo&do=profile&from=space&user=cody-macgregor_451694