Civil servants staged massive strikes opposing this as well as other reforms. While community credit card debt and inflation remained a challenge in 2004, Brazil's economy confirmed signs of growth and unemployment was down. Polls in Aug. 2004 shown that almost all of Brazilians supported Lula's rough economic reform efforts. https://moonzflower.com/profile.php?do=profile&from=space&user=carmela.grier-451694&op=userinfo&name=Your_Account