yesterday I was tx to and from a hot wallett to cold storage and was hit 4 times with .1
even Visa & mc dont charge that much ..(well they do but come on )
That's from the history of "no development and no release for a year", which is one of the reasons why I joined development. The next release drops the fee by a conservative factor. We will monitor market conditions after that point and decide how to adjust the standard fee again. 0.8.2 also allows mining pools the freedom to adjust their acceptable fee threshold if they think they can attract more profits, but that can be hazardous to their pool if done improperly.
Please follow the Litecoin Dev Team news. All this stuff is explained there first: https://plus.google.com/104307324656397909502/posts