Civil servants staged substantial strikes opposing this and also other reforms. Despite the fact that public debt and inflation remained a dilemma in 2004, Brazil's economy showed indications of progress and unemployment was down. Polls in Aug. 2004 demonstrated that almost all of Brazilians supported Lula's hard economic reform endeavours. https://toppinvestors.com/userinfo.php?mod=space&userinfo=forrest_scarf-451694&from=space&com=profile