Civil servants staged enormous strikes opposing this and other reforms. Despite the fact that community financial debt and inflation remained a difficulty in 2004, Brazil's overall economy showed signs of growth and unemployment was down. Polls in Aug. 2004 shown that the majority of Brazilians supported Lula's hard financial reform https://bettaso.com/userinfo.php?userinfo=imogen-grover-451694&name=Your_Account&do=profile&from=space&action=view