Civil servants staged enormous strikes opposing this as well as other reforms. Even though public debt and inflation remained an issue 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 tricky financial reform attempts. https://bravelight.net/userinfo.php?com=profile&username=dan-walling_451694&from=space