Edwin Tong and his art of confusion, helped by DPM Teo.

[Confuseous]

Mr Edwin Tong’s comparison is even worse. He compared WP’s $715,000 to the review committee’s $607,750 recommended salary excluding variable bonuses. While there is nothing extraordinary with Mr Tong’s mistake of using the $607,750 meant for the senior minister of state as all PAP MPs made that mistake, what is extraordinary is that he even bothered to compare salaries without considering bonuses. Even the review committee didn’t make that comparison in their report. Why? Because it is so ridiculously irrelevant. Table C of attachment 3 shows that a good performer will get three months bonus. The PAP kept emphasising they have gotten the top 1,000 from the population, the cream of the cream. It’s taken for granted they will be ‘good’ performers if not ‘super-hero’ performers. Is Mr Tong telling us he expects this.

- http://trulysingapore.wordpress.com/2012/01/19/real-progress-in-ministeria​l-pay-debate/