PHA training included karaoke, yodelers and belly dancers

The Philadelphia Inquirer reports:

With the federal government cutting housing subsidies in 2006, Philadelphia Housing Authority managers spared no expense to take "diversity awareness to a new level."

How else to explain the karaoke singers, salsa dance instructor, Swiss Alps yodelers, and belly dancers who were mingling with PHA middle managers at the Wilson Park Community Center?

The cost: about $17,150, including $1,200 for the belly dancers.

The evening's finale began when four exotically clad belly dancers pulled members of the audience into their show. PHA's then-executive director, Carl R. Greene, was surrounded by the women, one leaning against him, another with an arm around him.

Would you want these morons running your health care plan?