RELYING ON the 2001 state budget is like depending on a piece of cloth as your one piece of clothing. Pull it up to your shoulders and your feet will get cold; pull it down and you'll expose your navel. The situation is made all the more sensitive because the government, as the nation's caretaker, which requires a budget to meet needs, appears not nearly adroit enough to deal with the problem. Rather than try and prevent the fall in the value of th