...you're as good a friend as I've got

[shootingstar]

...
George: And, like you say, being gone all the time ... in other places and meeting other people ... If anything like that can happen I don't want to9 go away. I guess new people aren't any better than old ones. I'll bet they almost never are. Emily, ... I feel that you're as good a friend as I've got. I don't need to go and meet the people in other towns.
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(Thornton Wilder, Our Town)

My problem here are the words as I've got. What do you take them to mean in this context?

 

[emsr2d2]

It means the same as it does in "I've got three friends". The whole thing is an old-fashioned way of saying "You're one of my good friends" (and I don't have any better friends).

 

[teechar]

My problem here is are the words

See correction.
cf.
My problem is are the noisy neighbours next door.
My problem is are the lies he tells all the time.
My problem is are the slurs contained in that letter.
Since "problem" is a singular subject, we use a singular verb to go with it.