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 financial system showed signs of growth and unemployment was down. Polls in Aug. 2004 shown that almost all of Brazilians supported Lula's difficult financial reform endeavours. https://lintense.com/profile.php?user=meagan-munger.451694&mod=space&com=profile