Civil servants staged huge strikes opposing this and various reforms. Despite the fact that public debt and inflation remained a problem in 2004, Brazil's economic climate showed indications of progress and unemployment was down. Polls in Aug. 2004 demonstrated that almost all of Brazilians supported Lula's tricky financial reform initiatives. https://multiflay.com/profile.php?action=view&com=profile&userinfo=keesha_covey.451694&op=userinfo&from=space