But many old people are too embarrassed and ashamed to admit they have got a problem.

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You've got to have a real solution to this problem.

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If it was a simple problem, it would have been solved before we got here.

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And we've got a problem in this country, which is we have a shortage of nurses -- makes no sense, given this unemployment rate.

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The big problem is property values have plummeted -- you got a bunch of boarded-up buildings, a bunch of boarded-up stores.

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We have got to get rid of this idea that this is an American problem or a Western problem.

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Labour say the government have failed to get a grip on the problem in its first year in power and the situation has got worse in some parts of the country.

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"The biggest problem we have is that we have built up a reputation over the last 18 months and it got ruined in two games, " he said.

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