It's not convenient to use gold to make small purchases, so you need silver. With bitcoins, small purchases are not an issue. So....
because there are 4 times more litecoins then bitcoins, like with gold and silber. (there is 4 times more silver then gold...)
litecoins are the coins for the little man and easy to mine - thats it.
visit:
http://forum.litecoin.net/
BTC/LTC relationship is a very temporary, tenuous situation lasting months...
Not remotely comparable to the gold/silver relationship lasting millenia.
And MG, thanks for outing yourself as a nut/ignore.