If you didn't care about the government, then why not just use a plain old bank?
It depends on the amount. When transferring a thousand dollars, using Bitcoin is less expensive compared to traditional bank-to-bank transactions. If the banks involved are in different countries, the process becomes even pricier and takes longer for the transaction to be confirmed.
All you try to portray bitcoin as is your interpretation, if you knew how bitcoin was designed and for what we wouldn't have had satoshi we would have gad legitum as the inventor.
Satoshi mentioned the government only once, and you're not going to like it:
"The developers expect that this will result in a stable-with-respect-to-energy currency outside the reach of any government." -- I am definitely not making an such taunt or assertion.
Satoshi mentioned the government quite a lot of times. "Governments are good at cutting off the heads of a centrally controlled networks like Napster, but pure P2P networks like Gnutella and Tor seem to be holding their own". The genesis block message. I believe he also discussed government in the introduction post on the p2pfoundation forum.
The original intent, as Satoshi suggested, for Bitcoin was to function as peer-to-peer cash, but it is rarely used like this nowadays. No significant concern there.