There is plenty of money. The principal reason boots suffer is the amount of money skimmed off the defense budget by inside the beltway contractors and consultants (look at the highrise building program in Tysons VA - who is paying for that) [and no I am not here targeting the guys who actually make stuff, but the large industry that exists to skim to hire people to interfere in the making of stuff - it is the swamp's biggest industry).
Until you fix the corrupt and dreadfully wasteful defense acquisition process there is no helping the boots on the ground. The money just won't penetrate through the containment walls of the swamp to get there.
hmmm. there was a news program on wasteful government spending...during the last administration. Goofy stuff. Why don’t we ever hear of this stuff? I’m sure there are LOTS OF boot families that need to know why their warriors have to buy their own new boots after they’ve worn their allocated pair during a 7 month deployment to helmand province.