re: So then enlighten....
To oversimplify, when a government official decides to enrich himself, it's taxpayer money, extracted by force. A company CEO's compensation is arrived at through voluntary means.
In other words, Michael Eisner doesn't have a gun.
I may have missed it, or it may have been left out of the story, but I didn't notice anything in the article about the salary boosts being put to any kind of a vote.