Civil servants staged huge strikes opposing this and other reforms. Whilst general public credit card debt and inflation remained a challenge in 2004, Brazil's financial state confirmed signs of growth and unemployment was down. Polls in Aug. 2004 shown that the majority of Brazilians supported Lula's hard economic reform initiatives. https://skyflypro.com/userinfo.php?name=Your_Account&user=madeline.kolb-451694&do=profile